‘My work arises out of a desire to speak about experience and subjectivity as sites of conflict. It's about denied histories: the body, sexuality, class and the structures which both enable and prevent certain knowledges. I'm interested in the difficulty of producing such knowledges within existing frameworks of visual and spoken language which may be unsuitable and inadequate but are nevertheless usefully unstable and constantly shifting. (…) “Closed Circuit” (3 mins, b/w) is about the knowledge, pleasure and danger in being watched and is an exploration of how the visual languages of pornography and erotica work. In the gym, a traditionally male arena, the woman is apparently powerful but there still exists a sense of vulnerability. Although the woman is always active she is solitary and forced into a kind of passivity by the incessant, voyeuristic probing of her movements by the camera. This relationship is inverted as she returns the look and the cutting rhythm denies the viewer's total scopic involvement.

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‘My work arises out of a desire to speak about experience and subjectivity as sites of conflict. It's about denied histories: the body, sexuality, class and the structures which both enable and prevent certain knowledges. I'm interested in the difficulty of producing such knowledges within existing frameworks of visual and spoken language which may be unsuitable and inadequate but are nevertheless usefully unstable and constantly shifting. (…) “Closed Circuit” (3 mins, b/w) is about the knowledge, pleasure and danger in being watched and is an exploration of how the visual languages of pornography and erotica work. In the gym, a traditionally male arena, the woman is apparently powerful but there still exists a sense of vulnerability. Although the woman is always active she is solitary and forced into a kind of passivity by the incessant, voyeuristic probing of her movements by the camera. This relationship is inverted as she returns the look and the cutting rhythm denies the viewer's total scopic involvement.