by ben stott
with Ami Zanders
digital video
h: 1 w: 1 d: 1 (cms).
This film explores slow movement as reanimation of found objects - a process of becoming in Simone Schmidt's term, "body-object". Using detritus found on Crosby Beach, Merseyside, the artists created surreal costumes that would render them not-quite-human, not-quite-object. Simultaneously moving through liminal space between land and sea, between object and subject, the boundaries seemingly become blurred - do the artists animate the objects or do the objects animate the artists? At the current moment, this work speaks to a sense of being 'in limbo' or stuck inbetween, waiting, neither here nor there. Perhaps we are all experiencing one kind of limbo or another at the moment - waiting to move freely again, to be in physical proximity, to do something other than think of past or future.