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What Can Spinning Be?
HD video, 4 minutes, 2020
A video about the features and possibilities of different kinds of spinning. First focusing on the aesthetics of spinning, how it appears to us and how it can affect how we see things. Then, focusing on how we might inhabit, embody and enact spinning, as a technique in our 'repertoire of contention' that can have radical, even revolutionary results.
The video uses found footage of spinning ice skaters, skateboarders and roller skaters, as well as footage of spinning animals and objects, finally focusing on the spinning techniques that helped protestors bring down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the Bristol Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Made as part of ‘Lan Gwuhj Geimz’, the 2020 artist commission for Open School East.