IT IS WANTING

IT IS WANTING is a practice-based multi modal work that takes a variety of forms:

1) a multi modal performance comprising Video projection, physical and vocal performance with props and staging, 15 minutes duration

2) a single-screen video version of the above, incorporating re-staged performance mixed with video, 10.5 minutes duration.

3) A 1 minute edit of the video work has also been shown widely as part of a touring programme in the series curated by Kerry Baldry called ’One Minute Volume 12’.

IT IS WANTING is a defiant, weird, multi-modal work using bar codes as its visual motif. It is a melancholy lament to over-production, compulsive consumption and toxic automation.

A 60-year-old woman (the Filmmaker) confronts over-consumption and AI-fuelled misogynistic ageism with deadpan slapstick, a sculptural costume with related props and an intricate, animated video. Words are spoken and chanted on and off screen and accompanied by electronic and live music, made in collaboration with composer Matt Rogers.
It is a frenetic performance of striped, coded beings enmeshed in a system that’s of their own making, yet out of their control. Ambiguities and interference patterns are embraced, as is the contradiction of the toxic and the sublime, the comic and apocalyptic.

IT IS WANTING advances the development of a new, multi-modal formal vocabulary using novel combinations of moving image and performance genres.

The work explores the development of an expressive vocabulary equal to the interrogation of acute contemporary anxieties; fears of extinction; unstable relationships with technology and ecological collapse.
The single screen video has been selected for Video Data Bank’s international catalogue and distribution (see link below)

Screenings of the 1 minute edit of the video work I have pasted here, for clarity, instead of inputting them in the field below

as part of touring programme (1 Minute, Volume 12) curated by Kerry Baldry at:

Storyhouse, Chester, UK, 6th July 2024
Close-Up Film Centre, London, 8th August 2024
Cube Microplex, Bristol 4th September, 2024
Visualcontainer + [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Via Passerini 18, 20162, Milano. 12 -27 September 2024
The Birley Project Space, Preston. UK - 7th December 2024
C.A.R. Media Art Fair, Essen, Germany - March 2025 - Directors Lounge Contemporary Art & Media, Berlin
CCA Glasgow 8 April 2025, UK
LÁ Art Museum June 1st-19th July, Austurmörk 21, 810 Hveragerði, Iceland
Le Cinoche Video, February 28th 2026Le Cinoche Video 2210 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal

more info at http://oneminuteartistfilms.blogspot.com/

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