Cycles

In this video work, I explore addiction and the cycles we recognise but continue to repeat. I am interested in the distance between becoming aware of a pattern and interrupting it. We may imagine a different response, yet return to the familiar gesture, impulse or source of reassurance.

I question how free our choices really are when bodily chemistry, desire and learned habits influence our behaviour. What feels like a conscious decision may follow a pattern already established within us. Through the work, I examine the tension between the sense of directing our lives and the possibility that we are moving through them on autopilot.

The bat poised above an old television gives this tension a physical form. It holds the possibility of breaking the cycle within a single gesture. The editing repeatedly returns to this moment, sustaining anticipation while the television remains intact. The capacity for interruption is present, but the sequence continues.

Through performance,… Read more