One Movement
Summary
One movement is a single channel stop motion video is based on traces of the marches and protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration and the historic Women's March on Washington DC , days after each other in January 2017. Both reflect Coble’s meticulous, on foot, documentation of the fences surrounding the White House.
Supported by
Galleri Image, Aarhus DK
Danish Arts Foundation
City of Aarhus
BUPL Solidaritets- og Kulturfond.
Description of project
One Movement is a stop motion video is created from a series of photographs of the fence that surrounds the White House in Washington, DC taken two days after the Women's March on Washington (2017). The empty lawn and now stripped bare fence can be seen as a reference to the Trump administration’s efforts to continuously erase and downplay the public protests again him. Whereas the immense number of protesters and signs are no longer there, they have left traces and imprints around and on the fence, which gave in to the pressure of people gathering and the weight of the posters. Thus, the effects of the people coming together across gender, race, age, religious belief and sexual orientation, are leaving the promising marks of one, intersectional movement.
This work was commissioned for the exhitbion Acting in Numbers at Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK. Uniting photography and performance, the works in Coble’s solo exhibition focus on iconic symbols, bodily gestures, chants, and signals used in political protest and as forms of resistance. Photography and performance can offer distinct temporalities that are urgent for capturing, sharing and activating often ephemeral signs of defiance.
Type of work
Single channel video commissioned for Acting in Numbers Solo Exhibition
Published in
Galleri Image, Aarhus DK
Link to web site
http://www.marycoble.com/video-/one-movement-2018-single-channel-video
www.galleriimage.dk/index.php/en/component/rseventspro/event/222
https://kunsten.nu/journal/queer-kunstners-call-to-arms/
https://finespind.dk/index.php/artikler-og-billedserier/815-queer-feminisme-og-social-retfaerdighed-kunstner-mary-coble-i-galleri-image-interview
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Date
2018-01-12Creator
Coble, Mary
Keywords
Art and Activism
Artistic Research
Stop Motion Video
Performance Art
Performativity
Play
Political
Protest
Activism
Washington
White House
Womens March on Washington
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng