MOCA Live (2018)

Audio-visual performance for the Museum of Contemporary Art, London

For MOCA’s 2018 performance art series, I created a new audio-visual performance piece using archival film and live electronic music. Public service films made in the 1940s and 50s were spliced and edited so that their meanings were recontextualised. Homoerotic narratives were exposed in (or engineered from) the footage where originally the films demonstrated many of the era's fears: nuclear war, drugs, and dilution of the family unit. Musical sampling extended this process of recontextualisation, rendering the familiar new.

MOCA produced a catalogue for the performance series which you can access on the gallery’s website.