THIS MOVEMENT
2013-2017THIS MOVEMENT was a line of enquiry that treated social movement as something made through the movement of bodies. It worked from the position that politics is not abstract, but produced through literal and metaphorical movements, human and otherwise.
The work used a range of methods to look at how bodies participate in politics. Rather than proposing a single approach, THIS MOVEMENT took different forms, including talks, interviews, workshops, reading groups, performances, and interventions. It often connected with other people’s enquiries by participating, collaborating, mimicking, observing, irritating, sharing, ignoring, and complaining.
Across its different iterations, the work moved between physical gatherings, online activity, and public events. These shifts allowed questions of choreography, organisation, attention, and collective action to be explored in different registers, without fixing them into a single format or outcome.
THIS MOVEMENT functioned as an open framework rather than a closed project. Its coherence came from repeated engagement with movement as both a political force and a practical problem: how bodies assemble, disperse, repeat, hesitate, and act together.
MOVEMENT 0: Choreographing Politics Blog
2013-2015. Essays blog [READ]
MOVEMENT 1: Reading Group
2014. ArtsAdm, London [Dance Critical Theory Reading Group]
MOVEMENT 2 : Twitter Account
2015-2017. Gif Archive [OPEN]
MOVEMENT 3: On Dancing and Farting
2016. Talk at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes 2016
MOVEMENT 4: Residency
2016. Residency at AirSpace Gallery [DECAPOD]
MOVEMENT 5: Placard
2016. Workers Rally, London
MOVEMENT 6: A Movement Ontology Game
2016. Online game, Flee Immediately! 02 [PLAY]
MOVEMENT 7: Love Will Keep Us Together Love Will Tear Us Apart 2016. Performance workshop at Roehampton University, London
MOVEMENT 8: Floating Lab
2016. Workshop. Chisenhale Dance Space, London
MOVEMENT 9: THIS MOVEMENT Stoke-on-Trent
2016. Audio interviews, AIRSpace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent [LISTEN]
MOVEMENT 10: Artist at Work Slow Reading Group
2017. Reading Group. Various locations, London