The commission will be a development of the work ‘Motion Capture’ exhibited at Gloam Gallery in May 2024 as part of a studio exchange to test ideas. The work explores the potential to transform my own body, reconfiguring into creatures that are both real and fictional as a way to invite imagination through storytelling. The green screen is a placeholder, suggesting a performance that has no fixed setting as with the figures who are morphed in unfired clay. The clay is used to suggest an older form of participation before digital as a reference to the mythical and archaic, where all life comes from the earth. This is an ongoing research into performance methodologies that manipulate body and space, paying attention to social and political histories. I am wanting to develop Motion Capture as a series over time that can draw on different references between historical and contemporary stories. 

 

For the billboard, there will be three large scale body prints who are represented in a song as angels of anarchy, taken from a title of work by Elieen Agar. These figures are recontextualising what our  place on earth is, to think about our actions and what stories we need to hear at this time. The audio will be a song around 5 minutes long, explaining who the angels are and how they act to bring out liberation. I work with the voice as another way of presenting the body and claiming space,  often in song format. The green screen is used only in analog as a device to think about space and highlight the movement of the body, we can then be anywhere and anyone we want.