Unsettling the boundaries of the live, the recorded, and the yet to come, A display of steps rather loosely strung together takes fragments of choreographic material from a previous solo performance and re-stages them for a recording on black and white Super 8 film. Through a process of video editing, these fragments are re-choreographed to move freely across multiple temporalities - the dancer’s body appearing to shift its own image as it pushes against the grain of the film. Heard through a portable speaker, an accompanying music playlist remains both aligned with and seemingly unfixed in its relationship to the images.
A display of steps rather loosely strung together (2025)
Other works by Benjamin Ord
Benjamin Ord
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.