(Past) Tense
(Past)Tense was a collaborative project between two photographers and three sound artists, accumulating in a-multi sensory sculpture exhibited at a group show in Copeland Gallery, Peckham. The piece explores unspoken memory through vibrations in the body under tension.
Our accumulated experiences and external politicised forces manifest as tension rippling through a vibro tactile composition. Visitors were invited to move through the composition, touching the work and listening closely to the pieces.
Collaboration played a role in combining self-portraiture with sound art, giving us permission to embrace vulnerability and self-acceptance. The motivation was to visualise an awareness of these inner tensions and say that when brought into focus, one can move forward.
The installation consists of sculptures made from chicken wire, with nude self-portraits printed on fabric stretched and woven across the wire, with small speakers behind the images emitting various pulsating and bodily sounds.The result is an immersive piece that the viewer can navigate as they wish, drawing them in to different parts of our fragmented collective body.
The artists that worked with on this are:
Ash Chalk
Marie-Lisette Cropp
Anachora Gilmour Hemington
Pierre Huang
Alvenn Soroko
Imogen Mason