Fiona Martin

Master of Contemporary Art

This suite of works comprises an investigation into everyday movement; the gestures and actions that individuals carry-out daily, then forget. Held within these simple movements are demonstrative blueprints of evolutionary mastery as well as evidence of ingrained patriarchy, embodied temporalities, love-ties, bindings to shared ancient ancestries, and interspecies parallels.

In editing, I discombobulate the familiar and interrupt the presuppositions we hold regarding such ordinary manoeuvres. Reframing the everyday is achieved via suspension of disbelief. I am influenced by Yvonne Rainer's No Manifesto which rejected the virtuosic.

The participants in my videos - my family, and friends - improvise within simple choreographic scores allowing for freedom of expression inside their boundaries. The personal textures and intricacies of movement are exquisite and touching to me.