Experimenting with the production and editing tools to hand, six artists live stream a performance from home, responding to the provocation I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now. A series of quick-fire commissions from Studios artists exploring work, play and process.
The moving image work begins as a rite of passage featuring Stonehenge Winter Solstice and, due to being unable to film on location because of COVID-19, becomes an exploration of the rite of passage more generally, and the internal altered states that a rite provokes. Through this, the artists question what it means to be move through a period which similarly to the rite can be described as an "unknown between two knowns".
Col's work speculates on the possibility of magick and ritual to question what a progressive future might be, away from the rhetoric of capitalism. Using the products, fashions and symbols of capitalism through the lens of ritual is a form of reclamation in resistance to late neoliberalism, which has always driven utopian models towards platform dynamics of closure.