As a movement artist, I wanted to know how our movements are limited by centuries of worship. Building an archive was a place for me start. The reenactments, transformations, analysis and commentary that emanated from this exercise were what motivated it.
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Through this portraits, I wanted to give 50 participants a glimpse, through dance, into the daily experiences of the Sikh man that has suffered widespread racial abuse for sporting external signifiers like beards and turbans. As a movement artist, learning a dance dissolves boundaries and develops connections, not in any abstract way but because movement is universal.
These abstract portraits are part of my research into worship through a vocabulary of movements, from the perspective of the worshipers relationship with a bodily extension ( a prosthesis, in this case a turban) and consequently his god, prioritising his gestures and their historical weight in worship.
