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East London Smells
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Shadow Play
2024
Shadow Play is a romantic drama set between the corridors of a shopping mall, a surveillance room, and the inner world of a security guard. The story follows the developing relationship between the surveiller and the surveilled, tracing the tension between the desire to obey and the urge to resist the spatial rules that govern how we move and are seen. As their connection unfolds, vulnerability and control shift back and forth, revealing how power circulates through acts of watching and being watched.
The episode forms part of Parasite TV, a four-part series that uses the metaphor of parasitic life to question hierarchies and explore mutual support as a form of resistance. Working with ideas of symbiosis, mimicry, and disruption, the project reimagines parasitism not as exploitation, but as a model for resilience and interdependence.
Developed between March and September 2024 as part of PolyVocalCity (Theatrum Mundi), the project was created during a residency in Croydon, London, where I explored how parasitic relationships might mirror life in urban systems of surveillance and control. Under the mentorship of artist Nina Davies, I questioned how popular dance cultures and online trends relate to technologies of visibility and invisibility, asking how our movements are read, tracked, or misunderstood by the systems that surround us.
Shadow Play was co-written and co-directed by myself, Coco Wheeler and Barbara Kaczmarczyk. It was exhibited as a part of Parasite TV at TURF Projects in 2024.
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PolyVocalCity is an intergenerational, alternative education programme for practitioners interested in cities and culture. As part of the 2024 cohort, I collaborated with Sara Anand, Naomi Credé, Madonna George, Barbara Kaczmarczyk, Norman Mine, Shiza Naveed, Tamusaqa Nkiwane, Bansi Patel, Matthew Pembery, Nick Smith, Angus Tarnawsky, Kaye Toland, Coco Wheeler and Annie Williams.