Single-channel video, (colour and sound), 15”35
Night Shift navigates the afterlives of extractive labour and structural violence through the sonic and corporeal language of rave culture.
Drawing from Christina Sharpe’s theorisation of the hold, understood as a space of capture and enforced proximity, the work unfolds within a liminal, nocturnal zone where bodies move not toward liberation but within the ongoing continuity of endurance. Night Shift positions the dance floor as a contemporary hold where sound, exhaustion, and movement register the weight of historical and ongoing violence.
Countering dominant imaginaries of rave as escape or utopia, Night Shift offers a fugitive visual language that remains with the hold, where sound exposes the repetition of violence, and movement marks the limits of what can be endured under imposed conditions.
Drawing from Christina Sharpe’s theorisation of the hold, understood as a space of capture and enforced proximity, the work unfolds within a liminal, nocturnal zone where bodies move not toward liberation but within the ongoing continuity of endurance. Night Shift positions the dance floor as a contemporary hold where sound, exhaustion, and movement register the weight of historical and ongoing violence.
Countering dominant imaginaries of rave as escape or utopia, Night Shift offers a fugitive visual language that remains with the hold, where sound exposes the repetition of violence, and movement marks the limits of what can be endured under imposed conditions.