Shifting Intimacies: 2006, Video Documentary. (5m10s). (Dir. Keith Armstrong).
Shifting Intimacies: 2006, Video Documentary. (5m10s). (Dir. Keith Armstrong).
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), In Cairns 2008, Participant Casts Dust Back Down Into the Space, Cairns, Australia (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), In Cairns 2008, Participant Casts Dust Back Down Into the Space, Cairns, Australia (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), At KickArts, Cairns in 2008. (Photo David Campbell)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), At KickArts, Cairns in 2008. (Photo David Campbell)
Shifting Intimacies Video Loop From Installation, 2006
Shifting Intimacies Video Loop From Installation, 2006
Shifting Intimacies: 2006-8, at ICA main theatre, London, 2006. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: 2006-8, at ICA main theatre, London, 2006. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), at ICA London, 2006, Interactive Image Projected Directly Onto Dust-Covered Floor, ICA, London. (Photo Keith Armstrong).
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), at ICA London, 2006, Interactive Image Projected Directly Onto Dust-Covered Floor, ICA, London. (Photo Keith Armstrong).
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), At the ICA London, 2006, Projection Onto a Raised Disc of White Sand. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), At the ICA London, 2006, Projection Onto a Raised Disc of White Sand. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), at ICA London, 2006, Participant Casts Dust Back Down Into the Space, ICA, London, England. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), at ICA London, 2006, Participant Casts Dust Back Down Into the Space, ICA, London, England. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Guy Webster's Experiments With Sound and Dust, Brisbane, Australia. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Guy Webster's Experiments With Sound and Dust, Brisbane, Australia. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies:2006, Sand Runs Through the Fingers of a Participant. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies:2006, Sand Runs Through the Fingers of a Participant. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Spinning Body Image in Water, Projected Onto a Disc of White Sand. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Spinning Body Image in Water, Projected Onto a Disc of White Sand. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent (UK) and Keith Armstrong in Sheffiled, England. (Photo Gerard Renvez)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent (UK) and Keith Armstrong in Sheffiled, England. (Photo Gerard Renvez)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent (UK) in Preproduction on Perspex House, Sheffiled, England. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent (UK) in Preproduction on Perspex House, Sheffiled, England. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent and Keith Armstrong Working in the Studio, Sheffield, England (Photo Gerard Renvez)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent and Keith Armstrong Working in the Studio, Sheffield, England (Photo Gerard Renvez)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent's Alchemical Experiments With Electricity and Dust (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent's Alchemical Experiments With Electricity and Dust (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent's Alchemical Experiments With Electricity and Dust (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Charlotte Vincent's Alchemical Experiments With Electricity and Dust (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Research Image, Burning Dust, Londonderry Loyalist Marches, Recorded During Arts Residency, Northern Ireland. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Research Image, Burning Dust, Londonderry Loyalist Marches, Recorded During Arts Residency, Northern Ireland. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Setting Up in the ICA Main Theatre, London (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Setting Up in the ICA Main Theatre, London (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Setup in the ICA Main Theatre, London, UK. (Photo Keith Armstrong)
Shifting Intimacies: (2006-8), Setup in the ICA Main Theatre, London, UK. (Photo Keith Armstrong)

Shifting Intimacies

An interactive/media artwork for one person at a time. Each participant enters a large, dark space containing two circles of projected film imagery presented within an immersive sound environment. One image floats upon a disc of white sand and the other on a circle of white dust. Participants’ movements direct and affect the filmic image and spatialised audio experience. Throughout the work a layer of dust (an artificial life form) slowly eats away and infuses itself deep into the imagery and sound. Each person has 10 minutes alone with the work. Their movement through the space continually affects speed, quality, balance and flow within the work. At the end of the experience they are invited to climb a lit platform and cast dust back onto the images below.

SHOWINGS:
1: Capture 4 Festival, 16–21 March, 2006, Institute For Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, England. Curated by Vivienne Gaskin and Portland Green.
2: Video Component shown at Northern Stage, 16–20 January 2007, (Stage Three), Newcastle, England. Curated by Charlotte Vincent.
3: On Edge Festival, 22-25th July, 2008, Jute Theatre, KickArts, Cairns, Australia.
4: Brisbane Festival 30 July–2 August, 2008, Judith Wright Centre For Contemporary Arts, Brisbane Australia.
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TEAM: Keith Armstrong (Artistic director), Charlotte Vincent (Co-Artistic Director Vincent Dance Thetare), Guy Webster (Sound Director)

PARTNERS: Arts Council of England, Australia Council For The ArtsQUT Creative IndustriesOn Edge ArtsVincent Dance TheatreArts Queensland, Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary ArtsCentre for Media Research (CMR), University of Ulster.

Shifting Intimacies resulted from an ICA/Arts Council England co-commission for Capture 4 and was generously supported by a residency at the Centre for Media Research (CMR) at the University of Ulster. Site Gallery and Vincent Dance Theatre also leant time and precious resources. Shifting Intimacies was further supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Capture4 is managed by PortlandGreen, for Arts Council England. We would also like to thank Joc Curran from The Zoo, Julie Dean and Marion Conrow for their generous support. Shifting Intimacies 2008 showings were supported by the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, The Brisbane Festival 2008 and The On-Edge Festival 2008 - with special thanks due to Stefan Greder and Bonemap.

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