The 5 Portals
For the first public performance as part of their Interpretation residency at Tate, Woolford created a specially commissioned sonic intervention throughout the whole day, disrupting the gallery space and offering alternative ways of navigating the institution and collections on display. From 10am till 10pm their piece, The Five Portals, played throughout the gallery. Woolford then activated their soundscape with a live performance, further exploring the power sound has over our movements and actions.
Throughout the day a specially commissioned sonic intervention by artist Joshua Woolford will be shared, disrupting the gallery space and offering alternative ways of navigating the institution and collections on display.
In the evening their intervention will be activated with live performance which explores the power sound has over our movement and actions.
This event is part of Queer and Now, a festival dedicated to the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ art and culture in the UK.’
- Hannah Geddes
I’m interested in deconstructing the fable of ‘foreverness’ perpetuated through destructive systems which refuse to give in; upheld within our everyday interactions and reproduced through our material and visual cultures which harmfully create objects which will outlive us all…
How can we inhabit our environments in more honest and less destructive ways, opening up new spaces to navigate the world and to imagine otherwise? And how far sound can be a conduit for this (ex)change?
The 5 Portals present themselves as ways in which to explore / enter into the space, and provocations for how to interact with the architecture, people and artworks on display.
Each portal is distinct in character, yet are made up of varying quantities of the same elements - that is to say that water exists within fire; the physical body exists within the mind...
The portals can be seen as connecting multiple points in space (geographic) and / or points in time (past, present, future)
Videography by Izzy Gzowski (@izzygzowski)
Wearing Olly Shinder (@olly.shinder)
Curated by Hannah Geddes (@hannahgeddes1)