Themes: Gender

Bathing

Bathing explores themes of contamination, cleanliness, and debility through performance and dance. Between the performer’s movements, the video intersperses images of oil, spit, fluid landscapes,

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The Foundation

The Foundation combines footage shot around the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles alongside choreographed sequences in a specially-constructed set. Together they form a

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The Prince of Homburg

Patrick Staff’s vibrant, colour-coded video uses text from Heinrich von Kleist’s 19th-century play of the same name to explore themes of persecution and punishment to

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Depollute

In a rapid-fire 2 minutes, Depollute presents a set of instructions, commands, a poetic edict dictating a set of actions required to perform a self

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On Venus

Staff’s On Venus is comprised of two parts. The first of scratched, warped, and overlapping footage documenting the industrial farming of hormonal, reproductive, and carnal

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We Need New Names

We Need New Names is an essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the

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A Boi is…

A Boi is . . . offers a humorous take on the educational programs watched during childhood. Formed as part of a hypothetical series the

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Bball Curriculum

BBall Curriculum is an investigation around the male body in relation to the artist’s own through scenes of homosocial bonding where men dance, play ball

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Nature Nurture (sketch)

Nature/nurture sketch is a video performance that looks at cross-cultural translation soundtracked by drum ’n’ bass. It is an attempt to give language to a

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The Gender Song

The Gender Song is a defiant call to end limiting gender categorisation spun over a dancehall riddim. It is one of four in a series

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Looking For Gary

Set on Essex Road among an established local community in Islington London, this film looks at the complex relationship between people and place. Growing up

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Lourdes

Lourdes is a new work developed from a residency in Tepito, Mexico, centring upon a discussion with a market trader called Lourdes. Interviewed about her

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Queen

In Queen, bodily labour, performance, leisure and domestic work are drawn into comparison via an irreverent musical memoir.

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