Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer
How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps)
How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps)
Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer, How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps), 2020. Video still. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel.
Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer, How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps), 2020. Video still. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel.
Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer, How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps), 2020. Video still. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel.
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Commissioned by TBA21–Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel
As part of the third and final voyage of TBA21–Academy’s ‘The Current II’ fellowship cycle ‘Spheric Ocean: Life For Beginners’ led by Chus Martínez, the Ocean Archive debuts the film How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps) (2020) by Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer.
In times of isolation in one’s interior, what is our fervent interest in instruction, in so many “easy steps” to instantly acquire some new and necessary education? What do we lack? How do we learn? What is a body, and what is a body of water? In How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps) (2020), the dancer and choreographer Temitope Ajose-Cutting passes through the rooms of her London apartment and then out into the seemingly emptied world, moving to (and against) spectral instructions that offer her the chance to become liquid, become ocean, become, that is, everything. Those instructions, written and read by the writer Quinn Latimer, offer some salty pedagogical drift, equal parts lesson and poetry, political current and personal query, as they sequence loss, levity, desire, kinship, kelp beds, and some tantalizing blue drink. Wet with the genres of both realism and speculative fiction, How to Move Like the Ocean reveals the depths that the imaginary of the body, ever slippery, can go.
PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING: Temitope Ajose-Cutting
SCRIPT AND VOICEOVER: Quinn Latimer
EDITING: Iris Touliatou
Commissioned by TBA21–Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel
As part of the third and final voyage of TBA21–Academy’s ‘The Current II’ fellowship cycle ‘Spheric Ocean: Life For Beginners’ led by Chus Martínez, the Ocean Archive debuts the film How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps) (2020) by Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer.
In times of isolation in one’s interior, what is our fervent interest in instruction, in so many “easy steps” to instantly acquire some new and necessary education? What do we lack? How do we learn? What is a body, and what is a body of water? In How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps) (2020), the dancer and choreographer Temitope Ajose-Cutting passes through the rooms of her London apartment and then out into the seemingly emptied world, moving to (and against) spectral instructions that offer her the chance to become liquid, become ocean, become, that is, everything. Those instructions, written and read by the writer Quinn Latimer, offer some salty pedagogical drift, equal parts lesson and poetry, political current and personal query, as they sequence loss, levity, desire, kinship, kelp beds, and some tantalizing blue drink. Wet with the genres of both realism and speculative fiction, How to Move Like the Ocean reveals the depths that the imaginary of the body, ever slippery, can go.
PERFORMANCE AND RECORDING: Temitope Ajose-Cutting
SCRIPT AND VOICEOVER: Quinn Latimer
EDITING: Iris Touliatou
Temitope Ajose-Cutting Bonnie Bird Choreography Award winner (2005), has created and staged works for venues such as Royal Opera House and ROH2. She has been commissioned by The Place Prize Bloomberg, and exciting dance producer Eckhard Thiemann at Woking Dance. Her works have been performed at DanceXchange, RichMix, Dance base in Edinburgh, Swindon Dance and the Soho Joyce (New York).
Quinn Latimer is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and moving-image production. Latimer was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is a lecturer in the master’s program of the Art Institute HGK FHNW in Basel.
Quinn Latimer is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and moving-image production. Latimer was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is a lecturer in the master’s program of the Art Institute HGK FHNW in Basel.