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Petroleum Jelly by Olive Hardy X Lydia Walker
Petroleum Jelly is a durational performance which takes place in a shop window, on this occasion at Window135 in South East London. The performers, Olive Hardy and Lydia Walker, move between one another using various tools and their hands to press, carry, clean and smudge petroleum jelly on the glass. Their image in turn is continuously revealed and concealed whilst being framed by natural light. The performance was devised through a collaboration between Hardy and Walker, with thanks to Window135 for hosting the performance, and Joseph Quimby for providing the soundtrack of the film, a shortened edit highlighting the two-hour performance.
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The Hug by Daphne van de Velde
The Hug is a short film by Daphne van de Velde about the longing for contact in a world where people have to live in isolation, often in fear of intimacy. The work suggests a hunger for skin and a desire for real human contact: the feeling of connection between our bodies through screens. Van de Velde’s work explores perceptions of the body in the digital age, questioning how we conceptualise corporeality through flat screens which have become the default way we engage with one another.
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Pink Shoulders Red Feet by Caroline Denervaud
Pink Shoulders Red Feet is a short film created by Caroline Denervaud in 2023 in her studio in Paris. On a piece of linen, using pastels, pigments and casein, she marks and materialises the passage of her body, its spontaneous movements, energy, expression in being and urge of telling a non-speakable language. Based on the idea of how the movement of a body can be translated into traces, Denervaud uses this process to create structures for her paintings.
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Open Form by M.Lohrum X Calvin Richardson
Open Form is a collaboration between visual artist M.Lohrum and dancer and choreographer Calvin Richardson exploring the intersection between dance and performative drawing. Filmed by Ray Moody, the short film captures the two artists exploring the potential of their bodily gestures as well as the resulting marks in a kind of ‘open form’. The piece investigates perception and the limitations of the body, as well as understanding dance as a form of corporal expression without the need to necessarily create ‘beautiful’ shapes, but rather explore the possibilities of movement. At the same time, drawing here is used as a way to record a trace of these movements, without pretending to represent a pre-defined ‘figure’. The film is accompanied by the song Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds, composed and performed by Quinta.
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Hinge Girlband by Nadine Muncey
A first date from an app is hard. It’s energy, it’s time and, more often than not, it’s comedy. Between the crazed-euphoric intensity of projecting one’s self into a highly romanticised future and remaining logical and steadfast, there is a sweet spot, where a first date feels good and energetic. Hinge Girlband by Nadine Muncey channels that ‘high on life' energy - looking at the space between the nostalgia of a phenomenal first date and the future unknown of where a relationship could go. Through feel good, physical ensemble movement, the film tries to capture that hopeful, beautiful moment of possibility. With an all female identifying team, this work was created and filmed in only two hours.