Shore Variations

(2018) 27.32min, Video

Shore Variations traces a durational, 3-day intervention of performance artist Julieanna Preston, as she moves with the tide and along the water’s edge at the base of the Chalk Cliffs of Birling Gap, UK. The body relates to the tidal space through an intensely physical, haptic and contemplative dialogue, with the intention of probing what can emerge at the confluence of material bodies. A camera co-inhabits the space, equally travelling towards and away from the cliffs. Alternating between black and white and colour, the video invites different modes of looking and perceiving. The material conversation between body and site is thereby extended into a conversation between the real space and its mediation through images and sound.

Digital Project: Claudia Kappenberg (UK)

Durational Intervention: Julieanna Preston (NZ)

Full length video on Vimeo.

Screenings at:

Body IQ Festival Berlin, Germany, 19-21 November 2021

MeCCSA, Media Interactions and Environments, University of Brighton 8-10 Jan 2020

VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 2019

Performing Ecologies, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by The Performance of the Real Research Theme, The University of Otago, Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, 21 – 23 November 2018

Costal Currents, The Printworks, Hastings UK, September 2018