More Than One Thing (Installation) (2021)
Multi-screen durational films, objects, text | 8 hours
More Than One Thing is an installation of audiovisual studio-documents recorded as part of Henry’s PhD research. With a particular interest in intersections of embodied sounding and moving, the project has brought together improvisers from across a spectrum of dance, music, and other performance practices in live-studio sessions and telematic environments throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic. Participants in More Than One Thing have been encouraged to explore spontaneous collective meaning-making in a studio context where discipline is explored critically as but one of myriad factors comprising individual thresholds for expressive activity. Closed-studio footage, and annotated experimental video-documents from More Than One Thing were presented in 2021’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival as a videographic installation in the Create Lab. A series of excerpts, cut into five hour…