Set inside a simulated club, a metahuman figure moves through strobe light and bass, embodying the technologized body and the affective economies of late capitalist leisure. Through the interplay of sound, light, and movement, the work interrogates exhaustion and repetition as structural conditions, tracing the precarious and often indistinguishable boundary between labour and release. Drawing on Moten and Harney's concept of the undercommons, the solitary dancer negotiates the tension between alienation and fugitive sociality. The rave emerges here as both an afterlife of labour and a contested site of collective becoming, a space in which refusal and participation remain difficult to disentangle and where the possibility of solidarity is as unstable as it is insistent.
Night Shift, 2025
Single-channel video, (colour and sound), 18:04min
Single-channel video, (colour and sound), 18:04min
Night Shift for 120 BPM - Bring Your Friends exhibition at Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney.