Orchestrations
Orchestrations (2024) was a performative video work that I developed whilst first considering how we might perform intimacy, and how individual intimate experiences might be echoed throughout the collective. I was thinking a lot about notions of performing the self, and how institutional activity can be viewed as being composed of personal interactions, and was beginning to use lens-based media as a means of moving my written practice into a more visually evocative one. A random intrigue surrounding the work of intimacy coordination in media also fed the workโs ideation, and I collaborated closely with a set of performers to choreograph its realisation.
The work exists as a single-channel video, featuring subtitles of a text that accompanied the work in its display at Burns St Studios in the autumn of 2024, where it was presented as a two-channel video and vinyl text installation.
The text included references to both Krausโ I Love Dick and to personal conversations, it read:
๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ท๐ข๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐บ. ๐ ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐น๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ข ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.
๐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ข๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ-๐ธ๐ช๐ฅ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต.
๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: ๐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ, ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค.
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ? ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
