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 Within a brightly lit, white walled room – with Georgian features (fire place, wide windows of old glass) a duo show, 'Dividual Production' is installed. The floor is a dark wood parquet, the space is domestic or pub-like.

Small sculptural works are installed on walls and larger pieces are free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer colour outside the window.

Two black yoga mats extend on a diagonal into the centre of the room, where a screen displays projected video, mechanic-support whirrs and a pair of headphones, lie flat on each respective mat.

The video shows tools which quantify in various public, private and domestic locations: a thermostat dial is turned through icons indicating temperature, a BMI & blood pressure report is printed, a parking ticket collected and an answer phone re-plays. Shots are separated by a monochrome graphic: (***) which occasionally overlays the non-linear narrative of the footage. A sign in a lift indicates the observation of patients privacy and clipped conversation is pursued throughout.

In parallel to sociological research , the video footage was collected over a few months and edited simply. Yoga mats were borrowed from gym where I was teaching Yoga twice a week and the screen (also borrowed) easily rolled up or down – designed for temporary use and transit. Kyle Galloway and I paired up for this duo show because we both had sculptural practices which were influenced by our ‘day jobs’ in London. Kyle as a plasterer and I as a yoga teacher. We also shared research interests in the ‘sense of self’ and society. I wanted to reflect the conditions the work exists within whilst creating a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control and industries of wellbeing.

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-There are two black non-slip mats layed out next to each other. Aligned long ways with just 10-12cm between them( the room is brightly lit, all white – with Georgian features- 1 fire place, wide windows made of 16 smaller panels)
+  Within a brightly lit, white walled room – with Georgian features (fire place, wide windows of old glass) a duo show, 'Dividual Production' is installed. The floor is a dark wood parquet, the space is domestic or pub-like.
-The floor – dark wood parquet, a skirting board, domestic or pub-like.  The room has other  small sculptural  works installed on the walls and larger pieces free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer color outside the window, leaves flutter. A roll-up screen is self-propped at your feet, projector whirrs by your head, media player with USB clearly visible – connected to Digital Audio Buffer- connected to white headphone splitter attached (grey headphones lie flat on the mats.
+Small sculptural  works are installed on walls and larger pieces are free-standing. A ‘london plane tree’ holds onto its summer colour outside the window.
-The video shows people using tools which help quantify a thermostat a BMI & blood pressure report is given a large pharmacy “Oh hello again Mork [<?] its me again – this answerphone is cruelly short!”
+ Two black yoga mats extend on a diagonal into the centre of the room, where a screen displays projected video, mechanic-support whirrs and a pair of headphones, lie flat on each respective mat.
-here are also shots which crop closely on the *** ceiling  lights (behind someone who is talking) and a Chinese board game ‘go’ (which we can see is set up next to a hospital bed – A tattoo’d right arm reaches into shot – holding pebble shaped chequers between fore & middle finger and firmly taps it down on the axis of an empty board.
+The video shows tools which quantify in various public, private and domestic locations: a thermostat dial is turned through icons indicating temperature, a BMI & blood pressure report is printed, a parking ticket collected and an answer phone re-plays. Shots are separated by a monochrome graphic: (***) which occasionally overlays the non-linear narrative of the footage. A sign in a lift indicates the observation of patients privacy and clipped conversation is pursued throughout.
-Marginalia = QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS
+In parallel to sociological research , the video footage was collected over a few months and edited simply. Yoga mats were borrowed from gym where I was teaching Yoga twice a week and the screen (also borrowed) easily rolled up or down – designed for temporary use and transit.
+Kyle Galloway and I paired up for this duo show because we both had sculptural practices which were influenced by our ‘day jobs’ in London. Kyle as a plasterer and I as a yoga teacher. We also shared research interests in the ‘sense of self’ and society. I wanted to reflect the conditions the work exists within whilst creating a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control and industries of wellbeing.
-The film is broken up with  black  screen that has three  white asterisks in brackets  in the centre – about a third of the width of the screen is covered by this graphic – which at certain points  will overlay other parts of the footage, Hashing up as an interruption , a break , or an elusive annotation. Tw male protagonists – whose faces we never see, are talking to their companion (or the Machinees) about work & life “I think it’s a bit too late, Dad.” And “that’s recent news to me” says one. And “they normally support their staff, unlike other agencies…” Says another. Although the edits in the film
-Do not allow more context to develop.
-HOW:
-The film is made over many months, footage collected indirectly, with no particular end – work envisaged. Simply edited into a loop, the graphic applied as image layer. Yoga mats borrowed from gym where I was teaching in twice a week. Screen easily rolled up or down – designed for temporary use.
-WHY:
-I wanted to reflect the conditions the work existed within, create a catalyst for conversation around agency, societal control, tools and machines which quantify and report (printed receipts were given from 2 machines in video) affect our sense of self & society?
- Steve's note to all: I suggest you cut the headings: what,  how & why. The text will hold up well.