Double screen colour video installation + sound
Looped

'Contest' (noun and verb):

In a dual performance-to-(handheld) camera, male and female hands each grip, hold onto and move along a long pole. A balancing act, moving from the ends of the bar to meet and touch in the middle and move apart repeatedly. Tilting both towards/against each other and away again, for as long as physically possible. The joint endeavour is both a collaboration and a struggle.

Our research considers the relationship between sculpture and performance and this work can be directly related to 'Handheld' 2019 [NB: see Radar 6628] and our earlier use of a scaffolding bar in 'A Body Parts', (Glasgow International, 2005) where a revolving length of scaffolding circumnavigates a room, at neck height @ 4 rpm.

For info, documentation of 'A Body Parts' can be viewed here: http://www.smithstewart.co.uk/selected-works/osborne-street/
NB: This work can be seen by clicking on 'Video' & in images 7&8

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