11-18th June 2021, online. Presented as part of Abandon Normal Devices 2021.
Moving like the tides, shifting shapelessly, the works in this programme reflect the flow of water in their form, channeling an aquatic energy in their assemblage and construction. Like Bruce Lee’s mantra - brought back into circulation by activists in the recent waves of protests in Hong Kong who used it to describe the mechanisms of their decentralised, leaderless movement - these films are “formless, shapeless”, moving “like water” around the container of the screens that frame them. What is the form and flow of a hydroelectric visual grammar, and what power or potency can be generated by assuming this fluid style of motion?
Dreamwalker (Andrea Zucchini | 2019 | Italy, UK | 15’)
Every Piece of You (Peter Spanjer | 2020 | Germany, Nigeria, UK | 6’)
Hear Me Sometimes (Sofia Theodore-Pierce | 2020 | USA | 14’)
Signal 8 (Simon Liu | 2019 | Hong Kong, UK | 14’)
Every Rupture (Sasha Litvintseva | 2020 | UK | 13’)
+ If You Stand with Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (Julie Murray | 1999 | Ireland/USA | 18’)