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Feel the repetition of time,

A continuous loop

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Repetition.

Walking in straight lines,

Feel the weight of your feet upon the floor.

Don’t slow down.

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Change direction,

Guided by a need,

A pull,

A desire,

for:

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The satisfaction of counts,

Familiarity of a rhythm,

A dominant beat,

A structured,
timing.

Movement that masks the

possibility of change.

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In this workshop, we asked how the familiar can be defamiliarise.

Our labouring bodies, not only hold the repetitive motions of linear progress as vessels, they absorb them affectively, through touch, feeling and emotion. They are carried and translated They become familiar, normalised and passed on.

Fixation in space and time has been one of the most persistent techniques capitalism has used to take hold of the body.

By connecting with materiality shaping and reshaping we consider how our bodies can unlearn this hold.

Negation occurs in a glitch
In the in- between space,
in a deviant moment,

a jolt in a linear movement of time.

Deviating from the straight line of progression.

unbound and loose.

Creating an unfamiliar space
an opening between question and answer.

LOOSE ASSEMBLAGE

REMAKING AND RESHAPING

This project was developed out of a series of workshops that used movement, writing, discussion, sculpting and sound, to challenge our familiarity with time and space. Through a process of defamiliarization, we tried to challenge what we knew, asking fresh questions which pointed toward unexpected openings - stretching out and disturbing normativity by unpicking its order and logic. We listened to and considered the polyphonic pulses, the temporal layers and multiple trajectories of the assemblage in nature and in society, which work in spite of and against the timeline of progress. We asked how these queer rhythms which provide us with alternative ways of being, challenge capitalisms totality by contributing to the building of multiple worlds. We asked how the repetitive motions of capitalist time are held differently in our labouring bodies and reproduced affectively between one another? We looked at how they were negated, deviated from and undermined? Using word games and free writing to inform our movements we worked with and through this negation, moving in and out to search for an in between space. Pulling together the fragments from workshops, zoom calls, scribbles, google docs and live discussions these experimental films were made as an attempt to represent a process of thinking, challenging and exploring.

A continuous loop

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Focusing

on counting up numbers things may

Begin to speed

up.

Until your body,

exhausted begins to

Slow down.

Falling out of time.

What happens

In between

From slow to fast

And to fast again?

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From the first thought to the

next thought.

What meaning occurs in between this journey -

Flowing from first time to repetition?

Thank you to Renée Bellamy and Saffron Mustafa for their incredible contribution to the this work

This is a project about speculation, about finding newness and about recognising what is forgotten and excluded. If it is messy, vague or unclear - that’s great - the gaps are the perfect place to go looking.