This month we are exploring all things that move! If your art form uses movement within the process, or if movement is the art form, then we were intrigued to see how your work tackled the subject.
It could be how pigments are moved across the canvas or how ceramics create the form. The art practice that creates amazing kinetic sculptural pieces, or you use robotics or mechanical objects for motion … dance, singing and performance …
This is a lively, inventive issue that demonstrates how creative and dynamic art and creativity can be when it moves.
Artist: Pamella Gomes
https://www.instagram.com/pamella.f.p.gomes/
“As a Seed”. Description: This photographic work captures movements from separate moments of a performance piece. Bringing them together to evoke a sense of intricacy to the viewers' eyes, and communicating a sense of incomprehension that is often felt towards the natural world and its movements. A seed is constantly moving, even if we cannot see it with our own naked eyes. Our technology helps us in perceiving such movements. In this case the body and the camera are just as much part of nature as the trees and the moss, and the distortion caused by layered movements is present everywhere. So you can perceive the movements in a unified image where all of these elements are interconnected. I am still, I am breathing, moving and growing as a seed.
Artist: Sofie Pinkett
www.sofiepinkett.com
Schism#3 - Tremor. Description: Graphite on tracing paper, overlaid on print This is the original tremor piece - created accidentally by misaligning the original pencil drawing over a print of the work itself. This misalignment creates a violent sense of movement, suggesting the seismic activity that may be the cause of this moment of destruction. This movement creates optical discord, leaving the viewer simultaneously looking and being unable to look. This discomfort is a deliberate challenge to the viewer - moving them away from the image , elevating the aggression of the piece.
Artist: Marin Flora Michèle
https://www.instagram.com/bougealexandra/
https://alexandrabouge.tumblr.com/maman
Artist: David Anthony Sant
https://www.facebook.com/#!/david.a.sant.7
@david_anthony_sant
https://x.com/kimsant1
The video “Displacement”
Artist: Nic
Instagram @nicpehkonen
https://nuclearinformationcentre.org.uk
Encircled. Description: Harnessing both kinetic and gravitational potential energy, the Nuclear Information Centre pendulum moves with apparent effortlessness across both deep and shallow time whilst simultaneously providing much-needed Anthropocenic spiritual guidance and tidy yes/no answers to the conundrum of safely managing the ever-growing global inventory of high-activity radioactive waste. The long-term management of radioactive waste is a global issue for all nuclear states with geological disposal officially put forward as the best and safest solution for the most problematic high-level wastes. In addition to the natural barrier of the “host” rock, geological disposal also builds in engineered barriers, including bentonite clay as a backfill material with the whole facility designed to isolate and contain the waste deep underground over the hundreds of thousands of years it will take to reach nominally safe levels. The NIC pendulum is roughly cast from bentonite in the proportions of a radioactive waste canister as it circles slowly around the seemingly clocklike arrangement of rocks. The search to find a suitable site and willing community to host a UK Geological Disposal Facility or GDF is currently ongoing in England and Wales. Where will the waste finally come to rest?
Artist: Yixue Yang
www.yixueyang.com
Trails of Qi: Between Existence and Void
Description: The artwork delves into the Taoist philosophy of "Wu" (non-being) and "You" (being), where the myriad of things arise from nothingness. Through the fragmented white clay sculptures, people witness the dissolution of matter, symbolizing the emptiness of "wu" while simultaneously expressing an inherent "energy" – a vitality and motion that persist even in brokenness. The scattered fragments across the space symbolize the flow of qi and the release of energy. Their seemingly random arrangement suggests an inherent order of the universe – a cycle of birth and rebirth. The exhibition space is open and minimalist, with neutral tones on walls and floors accentuating the sculptures' purity and conceptual depth, reflecting the natural 'Tao', which is effortless and self-regulating. On a macroscopic level, the broken forms and the process of reconstruction hint at the cyclical nature of the material world, the continuity within society, and the impermanence and transformation of material forms in nature. As visitors navigate through the pieces, they are invited to contemplate the cycle from being to non-being and back again, a process that constantly stimulates personal reflections on existence, time, and the rhythmic pulsations of the cosmos.
Artist : Nichola Rodgers
The film "We Choose Not to See" is a thought-provoking exploration of society’s tendency to ignore uncomfortable truths, even when they are right in front of us.
In the film, people are seen eating chocolate shaped like human figures, symbolising how we often consume and destroy without acknowledging the impact of our actions on others.
The chocolate people serve as a metaphor for real lives being affected, exploited, or erased, while the act of eating represents how society chooses pleasure and convenience over empathy and awareness.
As the characters consume these figures, they remain oblivious, and aggressive to the gravity of their actions, mirroring how we often turn a blind eye to injustices happening in plain sight—whether it's in terms of inequality, exploitation, or environmental destruction.
The title "We Choose Not to See" captures this wilful ignorance, emphasising that the choice to ignore what's happening around us is deliberate, and that complicity in the face of suffering can be as harmful as the acts themselves.
The film challenges viewers to confront their own passivity and question what uncomfortable realities they may be ignoring, encouraging reflection on the broader consequences of our everyday choices.
Artist: Lost_nor_found
You spin me right round baby
Description
Video of a sculpture from an installation held in the Old Primark Building , Margate. The monotony of the current state of creative education shouldn't be laughed at.
Artist: Petra
@petra.synthetic
https://x.com/LuisBetx9
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbetancoourt
About the other us. Description: Digital performance created with Real-Time AI Face Tracking, Audio reactive Point Cloud and SuperCollider Synthesizer, exploring the intersection between the human and the digital through a cybernetic dance that redefines the authenticity of the body in the synthetic age. Sound design by Petra.
Artist: Mathijs Hunfeld
Instagram: @my.glorious.downfall
https://www.mygloriousdownfall.com
AND SO IT GOES. Description: 2024 moving image, 3D-render, sound 16:9 4K. Focussing on a filter-perfect and conformed world, this revolving door comes as an opportunity in the search for a personal connection. While imbued in its disappearance, the scene starts to gain grounding as it visualizes the conflict between participation and cancellation, endlessly generating new distinctions. It curates a disassociated subject into space, not knowing what is and is not, trying to get from stressful waters to relief.
Artist: Yaqing Zhang
Dream Sequence from a Crumbling Precipice. Description: My research reveals connections between the formation of lightning strikes, neurons, ant trails, and city lights through their movements. I have extracted these movements and presented them in this animation. I refer to these movements as "dreams" to intentionally leave the conclusion open-ended, as any definitive answer seems to exclude another aspect of the work. This piece is an experiment in using animated movements alone to communicate with audiences.
Artist: Melike
https://www.facebook.com/melikestudio
Website: melikestudio.com
Description: This painting, made with charcoal in 2021, is a clear representation of how I transfer bodily action onto the canvas. The dimensions of the painting are 152/205 cm. Musician Periklis Tsoukalas composed the song Subsense Instinct for this painting.
Artist: Ulrike Behrendt
Shadow Dance
Description: Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a body image problem that is marked by an intense preoccupation with one’s physical appearance. It can result in avoiding looking at oneself all together. For me, my body is an alien shell that carries me around and not something I can identify with. I cannot actually look at myself neither in the mirror nor in photos. Shadow Dance confronts my body indirectly by its shadow, hereby creating enough distance and abstraction to allow looking at myself. Poses explore the interplay between the observer, the arranger, and the ‘me’. Photographs of my shadow are arranged as an animation describing a story of aversion, curiosity, instability and peace.
Artist: Sophie Thomas
Kinetic Lucidity. Description: For me this artwork encapsulates my dreams of movement. I was in a wheelchair for many of my teenage years unable to support myself but the thing I could always do was imagine my body weightless in space. This film still is created by dancers interpreting my drawings into a dance while I film them. I then edit it into the visions I had when I was lying in bed imagining having not just control over my body but complete freedom to move in any way imaginable. Medium: Film Still.
Artist: Lina A.
Website: a4lina.com
Train Play. Description: Train Play is a short film playing with the notions of absurdist theatre. It`s a recording of a long train journey with camera only facing the window, not showing the speaking characters. Randomly recorded conversations are structured by the art-ist in a way to form a nonsensical narrative with humorous elements. Even though there is constant movement on screen and quick change of scenery, I believe, it is still in constant tension with stasis. Even though the scenery flies by in the window, it remains dull and repetitive. Even though the landscape is in constant movement, we as viewers are immobile, stuck within a nonsensical conversation.
Artist: Ben Winter
Leap of faith. Description: Oil on canvas, based on famous photographs of a girl being thrown in the air by a poltergeist. This takes place in an empty space where the girl is frozen in mid air.
Artist: River Glade
exerci tation. Description: The use of lorem ipsum placeholder text in this prototype of an artwork/unfinished poem tracing the form of a swallowtail catastrophe is a choice that abstracts the content, allowing the viewer to focus on the visual and structural properties of the text rather than its literal meaning. The work is an invitation to consider the form of language—its rhythm, flow, and spatial presence—over semantic value, aligning closely with concrete poetry. Concrete poets use the physical placement of text as an expressive medium, transforming language into shapes, patterns, and movement. Here, the lorem ipsum text traces the geometry of René Thom’s swallowtail catastrophe, highlighting the theme of “movement and the kinetic” through surface and form. By stripping the text of direct meaning, I’m emphasising the structure and flow inherent in the shape, allowing viewers to interpret movement through the visual arrangement rather than linguistic cues. This abstraction reflects the core of catastrophe theory, where form determines possible outcomes, shifts and discontinuities within a system. The additional images are close-ups/details of the text overlain within the artwork.
Artist: Jojo Taylor and Asha Ward (On Soul Song Sensorium).
Description
Soul Song Sensorium is a wireless technological, performative and research-based collaboration between Jojo Taylor (Performer,) and Dr Asha Ward (Creative Technologist and Researcher), with contributions from metal fabricator John James. It is funded by HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund), through AUB Innovation Grants Programme. Soul Song Sensorium uses diverse technological processes and human interaction to produce a variety of sound sculptures. In the films Act i and Act ii, the performer is using a sound looping mechanism to record, and layer, spontaneous live vocals, which are then played back and accompanied with additional live vocals. The performer delivers this whilst moving around the space within a wheeled metal cage. During a later act, a handheld device is programmed to sense the ‘soul and essence’ of both living and inanimate objects, triggering a change in the performer’s vocals. Each encounter gives a unique sound alteration, adding to the composition of what evolves into a walking orchestra.