90-minutes. 15 wrestling holds.
For 4’45”, hold a bodyweight of clay was wrestled through a movement score of 15 wrestling holds over 90 minutes. Exploring the nuances of holding through the metered environment of the competitive fight created a framework for ritualised power play to take place. A temporal dislocation, in which the repeat of what-has-happened was at once transposed, remixed, and folded into present experience, set into motion, and thickened by the what-is-happening, thus opening greater potential for what-could-happen. Each hold was felt-through live, timed at 4’45” by artist Linn Phyllis Seeger, and marked by the exclamation ‘hold’. The pre- and re-mains of this work were on display for the duration of this exhibition.
Unruly Encounters, 2022
Southwark Park Galleries, London. Curated by Charlotte Bonham-Carter
