Untitled: Video Portraits 1-10
Drawing on my experience in popular music and dance, in Untitled: Video Portraits 1-10 I work with the music video format to explore its particular performativity.
Untitled: Video Portraits (2017) are a group of studies that engage with the music video as a format at the centre of pop culture. The works consider iconoclasm, a critical engagement with technique and the formal properties of popular media. Whilst drawing on certain familiar values of the music video (in terms of rhythm, editing, length and addressal of audience) the pieces re-focus on performance within the medium. The videos are played without the sound so that the subject, the body and its gestures become more present; the identity of the music is present only through its embodiment. By masking the gender of the singer and the placing of the (white mid-30s) male body in relation to the music and its performance, the works highlight the codes of gender and performance of sexualities.
