Pleasure Dome presents: “Measures of Motion”

Image credit: Sarah Friedland, film still from Drills (2020) 

At a moment when the space between us is rife with anxiety and risk, the task of moving towards intimacy with comfort or ease can feel next to impossible. How do we move in isolation? Where do we move in spatial constriction? The term “social distance” became a part of our everyday lexicon this past year. But it seems as though our bodies have been rehearsing for remote dances in bedroom theatres and detached duets on sidewalk stages for longer than that. Our phones are keepers of ubiquitous, collective choreographies that we might not even know we’re participating in. Many of the videos in this program were created before the pandemic, and yet the ways in which each one uses choreography and movement to measure intimacy and distance or mediate desire and survival seems very much of this moment. In Measures of Motion, we see a multiplicity of ways that moving bodies resist social and political anxieties through connective gestures, solitary confrontations, and choreographies of care. 

PROGRAM

Creatura Dada, Caroline Monnet (Canada, 2016) 03:04 min
Drills, Sarah Friedland (USA, 2020) 16:45 min
Face Rider, Francesca Chudnoff (Canada, 2021) 07:10 min
Moon in the 12th House, Jessica Karuhanga (Canada, 2017) 02:44 min
Dating for Export, Francisco Gonzalez Rosas (Canada, 2019) 07:43 min
Inclinations, Danielle Peers and Alice Sheppard (Canada, 2019) 5:40 min
Herr, John Greyson (Canada, 1998) 05:35 min

TOTAL TIME 48:41 mins.

Curated by Pleasure Dome Board Director Jennifer Laiwint.

Sponsored by TO Love-In.

Curatorial Text and Q&A Moderation: Anna Khimasia