Things that start slowly

Things that start slowly examines the process of re-finding a sense of permanence and stability after loss. It is a moving image triptych made up of images of a capsizing ship, a baby and two women, first in early pregnancy, and then later at nine months. As the baby feeds, the women move continuously, carefully re-positioning themselves in relation to the screen and each other. Running through the work is a tension between things that remain and things that disappear over time.

This film triptych was nominated for the International screendance awards in Barcelona and represents the beginning of Acts of Holding, a body of practice-based research offering somatic understandings of the temporality of loss.