Charizard

Our first solo exhibition, As if Nobody’s Watching presented a collection of works that expressed a hesitant relationship to their own visibility and display.

Paint rollers were precariously balanced to form a crude and futile barrier; sliced up plastic water bottles were re-arranged into shy and miserable figures; and magicians’ hands disappeared up their own sleeves. In the final room of the exhibition, visitors were rewarded with Been there, done that, an endlessly replenished pile of free t-shirts bearing a linoprint image of a hiding figure, by which they could prove their attendance to this subcultural event.

The exhibition took place concurrently with Dance4’s biennial of choreography, Nottdance, at which we were presenting our performance This. We want to build a bridge between the festival’s international audience of promoters and artists, and Nottingham’s ecology of independent and DIY practitioners. We marked the exhibition’s close with a performance of Untitled score for two performers (2016), in which two parallel announcers veer between officiousness, sincerity, solemnity, aggression and cliché.

Exhibition: Taking place at Four/Four gallery (now ‘Forth‘). Curated by Adam Grainger, Alice Reed and Christos Gkenoudis.

Photos by Adam Grainger.