Ways of doing things is a live, online performance, experienced by
one person at a time, that uses movement to explore the
relationship between giving and consent. The work explores why
we might give and what it is to receive something from someone
else. It positions the viewer as a potential donor and invites them
to be matched, looking for connections with people and things
beyond themselves. During the performance, people make
patterns, matches and shapes, in response to the performer's
hands, and donate these gestures to the artwork. Afterwards,
each small hand dance is added, with the viewer's consent, to a
growing map of other people's gestures, creating an online
database of movement.
Ways of doing things was originally produced by Cambridge Junction and commissioned for One Cell at a Time, an exhibition responding to the Human Cell Atlas project, led by Wellcome Sanger and funded by the Wellcome Trust no. 218697/Z/19/Z
If you sign up for Ways of doing things here, you will receive an email containing more information, and your individual link to the performance, nearer the time of the event.
