VELOCITIES (2021, 2022, 2023)
The word ‘speed’ has origins from the Old English word ‘sporone’ which means to prosper or succeed. This association of speed with success lingers to determine relative levels of power in our current world; technology develops too fast for legislation to safeguard us, systems let wealth accumulate faster than it can be distributed and women's attire has traditionally been designed to slow us down. Speed of systems determines the speed at which individuals need to be, in order to thrive or at least survive. How do we fall intentionally out of sync with systems that are larger than us, and still retain power?
When these ‘systems’ are communities that we subscribe to, how do we retain individual agency while harnessing collective power? What does it mean to be only partly in collectivity? This work explores urgent questions of leadership, asynchrony and collectivity.
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VELOCITIES TEAM
Lead Artist: Shivaangee Agrawal
Artists / Facilitators: Jane Chan, Meera Patel, Takeshi Matsumoto
Collaborators: Tom Shennan, Alex Anzemberger
Production: Nancy May Roberts / Metal & Water Co
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