Reunion
with Jame St Findlay
Reunion is a new video work by Samir Kennedy and Jame St Findlay which looks at death and misery in all of its absurd, horrific and mundane manifestations.
We wanted to collaborate on this film as our practices converge around an interest in the construction of and juxtaposition of images of misery and humour and how this pushes our sense of what it truly means to be one of the unlucky sad bastards to still be living on this earth.
Brought together by a mutual appreciation for the absurd, the abused, the bastardised and the beautiful we spent a week trapped within the walls of Agora, which now houses the Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier but which was once a convent for Ursuline nuns and later a prison for women accused of imprudence shortly after the revolution. We spent 7 days and nights shooting, roaming around following our noses, guided by its ghosts.
This is the result; a meeting of morbid monsters and miserable men, of multiple worlds and the fissures between them.
Creation supported by
Montpellier Danse, ICI-CCN Montpellier, Arts Council England
Screenings
ICI-CCN Montpellier, FR / Cambridge Junction, UK / Wainsgate Chapel, UK
The Hum Of Presence
with Bianca Scout
THE HUM OF PRESENCE is a new video work by Bianca Scout and Samir Kennedy. What do we mean when we say the hum of presence?
We mean the stalkers and the haunters, the visitors and the invisibles.
We’re talking about the erotic buzz of a fridge on its last legs.
The hum that transcends the dual carriageways and the motorways.
Breathe and flesh that gives life to all the little bits of trash that litter our minds. How do we talk of oneness without one?
THE HUM OF PRESENCE was borne out of a series of ongoing collaborative experiments through sound, performance and video. Holding space within our respective worlds In an effort to share in our strangeness.
Screenings
ICA, London / Arts Admin, London
