The LIGHTHOUSE, 2011- 2017
The LIGHTHOUSE frames the absent, or masked body, invisiblised by epistemic projection, as one that can be repurposed as a site of imaginative potential.
The LIGHTHOUSE functions as a metaphor (or 'pataphor) for the systemically erased body’s power to communicate; an outlier, on the edges, emitting frequencies, signalling into the dark while unseen.
The LIGHTHOUSE was informed by artist led workshops that offered participants a practical framework for outlining a parallel space from which to draw subjects (futures, visions, characters, artworks, fictions) out of the imaginary, with real effects, as if ‘real’.
These artist workshops were commissioned by galleries across London (Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Camden Arts Centre) as part of respective learning programs.
The LIGHTHOUSE currently exists as a series of video and performance works exploring how self-mediation enables the simultaneous construction and concealment of [digitised] identity, and synthetic forms of intimacy.
The Lighthouse (2013-15)
Series of four video works.
The body double, the dancer, mimicry and lip-synching, costume and prosthetics all feature in order to explore the effects of living through digital selves on our subjective, internal sense of the sensual, material, bodily self – each video representing a physiological state.
The works are conceived as isolated and floating heterotopias for imaginary and impossible alternatives, and the possibilities that arise when a self only exists when performatively invoked.
Choreographed in collaboration with dancer Kyrie Oda.The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England. The first two videos in the series were commissioned by Whitstable Biennale. First exhibited together in a solo exhibition at Bloc Projects in 2014.
Photo: Hyder Dewachi
Front, 2013-2015
A LIGHTHOUSE performance work, co-choreographed with, and performed by Kyrie Oda.
A reverse strip tease; layers of material and mystique are added in a cloaked dance of synthetic enticement.
First performed live at Jerwood Space, London, 2014.
PROXY, 2017
Body as physiological state that can be transferred through mediation.
Immersive installation with programmed sound and light works, hanging fabric ‘shadow’ sculptures, LED-let signwork, all interacting on a 11-minute loop.
Video documentation filmed during solo exhibition at Bluecoat, Liverpool, 6 May - 24 June 2017.
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AS IF, 2012
the dark matter potential of a hypothetical conjuring space, out of "nothing"...as if real
A specially commissioned publication (Tate, 2012) derived from The Lighthouse workshops.