I put a film in my purse and discovered that I could take it on a journey. I could walk across lines with my ‘torch’, project my film, be anywhere and nowhere. I did not need to ask…I could allow the work to encounter new spaces, fleetingly, and let the work be encountered by a fleeting, shifting audience within different cultural frames. I could play with connection and disconnection in a new way, and the potential for new encounters and translations was exciting. And so began a new journey, a new process, and new paths of thought. This is an enquiry into that journey, its paths, questions, its geography. Through ‘performing space’, I invited new intimacies, new borders, and temporary ‘skin grafts’ onto the cities I passed through…
‘A Film In My Purse…’
'A Film in My Purse...' A new research journey, using performance as process, untethered projections, and a mobile phone projector, in Mostar, Sarajevo, Tirana and Athens, launched 2015. Exploring border, encounter, intimacy, and the city...
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