'Nos Algaes’, 2015, is a collaborative video merging documentation of a live performance (of the same name which took place at Tramway, Glasgow 2014) with fictional scenes and pre-recoded material (soundtrack and video). ‘Nos Algaes’ takes place in an invented space; the artists’ own private club-come-bedroom-stage. The content is derived from the three friends’ correspondence, where personal reflections on performance, feminism and music are exchanged alongside fictional scripts. This depiction of intimacy is complicated by the fragmentary structure of the video and its disjunctive soundtrack, as personal reflections collide with fictional scenes that juxtapose 'acted' and 'naturalistic' modes of performance.
Screened as part of ‘Space Time: The Multi-Verse’, Wysing Arts Centre’s annual Arts Festival, September 2015. The festival was loosely curated around themes of altered states and multiple identities. 'Nos Algaes' was selected to be screened as part of a series of events programmed by Electra, a London based contemporary arts organisation and curator, who produces and supports works/exhibitions made across moving image, sound and visual arts. Electra's program was a continued investigation into the feminist performance score, connecting this investigation to the writing of theoretical particle physicist and queer feminist philosopher Karen Barad's concepts of intra-action.
As part of a week long residency at Wysing Arts Centre (invited by Electra), artists O'Neill and Tolmie created a performance script which was distributed at the screening of 'Nos Algaes'.