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Someone Else
– A new play in development
Beginning with the concept of the understudy, the show explores someone stepping into your role to do what you do. To have an understudy is both a comfort and threat – what if their performance trumps yours? We start to think about other roles in our lives when someone steps in to replace you: open relationships, uncertain living situations and the workplace.
'Someone Else' is about contemporary society, human value and holding on to what is irreplaceable. The work focuses on often overlooked relationships: connections with strangers, work colleagues and promiscuous hookups. It fights against a culture of disposability and disregard. It reaches audiences with levity, optimism and humour. We see that there is no way to make it through life without interdependence; without many iterations of someone else.
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Stuckness
– Performance art films exploring creative block
How does it feel to be stuck? Is there a way to experience it without feeling worthless? Can the body in motion help?
Stuckness is a two-year collaboration with University of the Arts London that strives to reframe creative block. Through workshops, performances and films, we intend to offer a new vernacular for students to discuss this frustrating and disorientating state.
We see being stuck in your work not as something to turn away from, but rather to be understood, challenged and moved through.
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HARDCARE
– Artistic enquiry into non-normative care experiences
HARDCARE explores the fringes of care; that which is kept hidden from view or seen as deviant. It rejects care as soft and passive, and acknowledges the hardship involved in some acts of keeping well. HARDCARE proposes new language and aesthetics for care.
The socially-engaged work, devised by David McGovern, makes visible people, acts and places of care that sit outside the norm. HARDCARE acknowledges the tenacity involved in living with chronic or undiagnosed illnesses, the potential care provided by sex workers, and the ability for any one of us to find care through unofficial sources. HARDCARE is a radical reimagining of how we view looking after each other and ourselves.
Visit hardcare.net to learn more. The work is ongoing, and was recently awarded funding by Arts Council of Ireland.
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The Machine Forgets
– Experimental sci-fi short reflecting on memory
Memory is complicated. It contains our abilities, our experiences, our achievements and in many ways, ourselves. We remember simple moments in life, and extraordinary times. However we also keep our fears, prejudices, traumas and doubts in our memory. What if we just focus on how we are in the present moment, and no longer be tethered by our past?
The Machine Forgets (忘却機) was shot between Nepal and Japan. The work was exhibited at Studio Kura and Arts Itoya in 2020 in Kyushu, Japan, and screened at Design Festa in Tokyo later that year.
An extract of the film can be viewed here
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New Masculinity
– Exploring the changing male mindset
Collaborating with IGGYLDN, we set out to discover how real men are feeling and talking about their gender. We invited nine men from different ethnicities, ages, and orientations to The Future Laboratory to discuss the changing role of masculinity. The film focuses on male softness and vulnerability.
We opted for a sparse, neutral visual approach, allowing the opinions and experiences to be the focal points. The conversations were allowed to unfold naturally, with gentle prompts. The feeling of building and coming apart, construction and destruction, was important to convey. While the men navigate the landscape of modern masculinity, the viewer is offered simple yet striking visions of men operating in the world.
Film available upon request
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Conscious Deceleration
– Breathwork lesson delivered in a slow tv format
Wellness has been in accelerator mode. After growing exponentially over the past few years, it has fallen victim to a narrative that tells us that we must constantly achieve more. This needs to be remedied.
Working with breath coach Richie Bostock, we created a 20-minute film that guides viewers through a restorative breathwork lesson. The work was installed as an uninterrupted Slow TV experience in an ambient underground space in East London.
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Guestlist 2030
– Speculative film on the future of luxury
In 2030 luxurians have replaced ostentation and opulence with meaningful materialism. This new generation of affluents will emerge, resulting in the old signifiers of wealth disappearing.
In this speculative film, shot on location at The Corinthia London, we profile three future luxurians. The first, a Digital Patron, uses his money to support the new emerging creative arts. The second, a Clean Capitalist, uses her wealth to protect the environment. The last, a Meaningful Materialist, seeks guilt-free luxuries.
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Common Sense
– Experimental short musing on the human condition
If we could teach - or learn - how to be human, what would the lesson be? Do we strive to understand the most intellectual charactertistics, or savour the mundane that make us who we are?
Five video vignettes form a guide on the imperfect, inexplicable nature of being a human. We could teach how to pick up a felt marker and colour, but can we teach the impulse and pointlessness of what to draw? The short is soundtracked to our species’ greatest cerebral asset - Youtube tutorials.