Feeling the Blues

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4’45”, hold (90 mins)
Southwark Park Galleries, 2022

An equivalent bodyweight of clay is wrestled through a movement score of 15 wrestling holds over 90 minutes. Each hold 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 the exhibition.

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Movement Two: MAKE ME WET (45 mins)
Copeland Gallery, 2023

The dried body of clay that was wrestled in 4’45”, hold is pulverised through the rub and friction of the body. Wearing a suit tailored with frictive materials and working with looping systems, the sounds produced are remixed live by sound artist Lyndon Lewis. Improvised from a music-movement score of 12 wrestling holds from 4’45”, hold. The pre- and remains of the movement were exhibited at Beaconsfield Gallery on both sides of the performance.

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