Salomé

The score, or map, feels like a set of choreographic prompts: challenging and disorientating, as it stages collisions between bodies that might occur in either intimate or public space.
– Dance Art Journal, April

Public Intimacies is a grid of digital-print posters bearing large blocks of colourful text.

Each poster juxtaposes two different parts of ‘my’ or ‘your’ body. They can be read as a document of a past event, or as a score for something yet to happen. Inciting a mental cinema, or a choreography of the mind, most viewers find their imagination beset with various possible collisions between bodies; that might traverse the office, the dance floor, the bedroom and the street.

Public Intimacies speaks to the complexities and delight of what it means to share civic space, particularly in the uncertain aftermath of #MeToo and Covid-19. Ambiguously referencing both formal signage and our informal movements – and sensuously offering out the meaning of the text and the materiality of the smeared glue and lightly crumpled paper – the work invokes instabilities of embodiment, proximity, collision, possibility, and desire.

Installation: First presented at the one-day symposium How Do Institutions Choreograph Us?, ICA (London, June 2023).

Later presented as part of our solo exhibition Any Other Business, Gasleak Mountain (Nottingham, October 2023); and the festival of expanded choreographer Fest en Fest, APT Gallery (London, March 2026).

Photographs of installation at Gasleak Mountain by Freddy Griffiths, and installation at Fest en Fest by Henri T.

Review: By Josephine Leask for Dance Art Journal, April 2026, available here.