Benjamin Ord
Benjamin Ord is an artist and choreographer born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa and based in London, U.K. His practice, primarily based in performance and moving image, explores how the body pushes against the fixed surface of a finite image, object or linear time. Frequently using queer methodologies and lo-fi forms, his work points to an expanded notion of liveness that intervenes in the present moment in order to gesture towards the transformational potential of the future.
He has shown work at venues including RM Gallery (Auckland), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), Close-Up Film Centre (London), APT Gallery (London), Spike Island (Bristol), DAAD Gallery (Berlin), and The Place (London). As a dancer for over a decade he worked for several major dance companies including Company Wayne McGregor, as well as performing in work by Sriwhana Spong, Tino Seghal, Pablo Bronstein, and Mark Wallinger among others.
Benjamin holds an MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Kingston School of Art at Kingston University, London.
Benjamin Ord on CIRCUIT · 2 works
A display of steps rather loosely strung together (2025)
Unsettling the boundaries of the live, the recorded, and the yet to come, a dancer’s body appears to shift its own image as it pushes against the film grain.
Fountain (The Touch of You) (2022)
Treating the fountain as a camp choreographic form, this work commits to one looping gestural phrase that renders movement as an object able to be perpetually transported and re-staged.