In this issue, we investigate movement not only through physical action, but also through written form, sonic expression, performative acts, spatial intervention, physically creative pieces and conceptual process. We are interested in how movement inhabits the body, the page, the voice, the archive, the environment, and the imagination.
This theme explores: How does movement leave traces? How can writing perform? What remains after motion disappears? Can stillness itself become a form of movement?
We encouraged submissions that blur disciplinary boundaries and challenge fixed formats.
Artist: Gary Willis
'The Polar Bear'
Description: "It's just a wave. A repetitive force. A split second of water and spray. And then it's not. It’s something else. For now, a polar bear."
Film movement city Seoul city life
Artist: David Anthony Sant
https://filmfreeway.com/DavidAnthonySant
https://www.facebook.com/#!/david.a.sant.7
Description. “Succession”. The video artwork Succession connects to the theme “The Essence of Movement” by presenting the city as a dynamic space shaped by the constant flow of people, images, light, and information. Set in Seoul, South Korea, the work uses urban elements such as LED lights, digital billboards, streets, alleyways, graffiti, and reflections to explore movement using an extemporaneous approach to filmmaking.
Production Format: HD Digital Video Ratio: 16:9 Year of production: 2024 Duration: 00:03:09 Video Footage: David Anthony Sant Field Recording: David Schaffer.
Artist: Millad Khonsorkh
This video explores movement as a way of carrying feeling, memory and transformation - both physically and through the process of sharing between two humans in an intimate, platonic relationship. Through poetry and shifting visual gestures, the work traces the movement between inner and outer worlds. Its animated forms emerge, dissolve and return again, creating a sense of motion that leaves an emotional and imaginative residue behind.
Movement
Artist: Myrna Renaud
https://ensitudanza.wixsite.com/afdp2
Variations in second position sitting down
Description: This video ritual is ensconced in a particular spot at the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon – the park where I dance, stretch, breathe, and embrace the trees. My Ancestors favour the bench in front of the bamboo patch in the matrilineal stream of my genetic configuration: the dancing midwife, the spiritualist, the textile artist. Variations in Second Position, Sitting Down was born from the rehabilitation of a broken wrist. The trauma befalls an old dancer, relevant yet slowly decimating into a diminished range of motion, deprived of floorwork as she works through therapy. What remains is this: second position, sitting down. A constraint that becomes a form.
Fast, speed and movement
Artist: Zoran Dragelj
https://www.facebook.com/zdragelj/
Zoran Dragelj's critically acclaimed experimental video, 'Fast,' is a mesmerising explosion of imaginative and dreamlike panoramas, earning it accolades for its innovative approach.
Description
Fast (2005) Fast, an award-winning short video, is a burst of imaginative and dreamy panoramas Length: 56 seconds Format: (DV) digital video, shot on 16mm.
Artist: Samarnaz Alishahi
samarnazalishahi.myportfolio.com
Her Hands Remember -1
Description. This project focuses on my grandmother’s hands as a reflection of her identity. Once full of skill and care, they were central to her daily life; cooking, sewing, and gardening. After breast cancer treatment and the onset of Alzheimer’s, she gradually lost both physical ability and memory. Through these images, I explore movement as a process of transformation rather than motion. Her hands became a record of a gradual transition from strength to physical limitation, and from memory to forgetting. While they could no longer function as before, they continued to carry the warmth, love, and presence that defined who she was. Alzheimer’s took away the function of those hands, but it could not take away their essence. This work asks what continues to move through us even when our bodies no longer can, suggesting that love, care, and identity can endure beyond physical ability and memory.
Artist: Xiaoyang Meng (Artist)&Laomie Huang(Technical Support)
https://xiaoyangmeng.com/
Description: City: Open Score is a kinetic sound installation consisting of 9 mechanical music boxes and 8-meter-long punched strips. The artwork stems from artist Xiaoyang Meng's questioning of the "pseudo-randomness" found in modern computer programs. The artist seeks to find true, uncontrollable human variables that have not been alienated by technology. Since 2021, Meng has traveled across 7 countries and 12 regions, recording the flow of crowds on urban escalators. These real physical movements were then "translated" into physical notes on the music boxes. The work shows that even within these strict "physical algorithms," true randomness and human warmth still exist. e title "Open Score" is borrowed from an experimental music term. In the exhibition space, music boxes representing different city time zones—such as London, Beijing, and Rome—operate simultaneously. Because the installation preserves the actual differences in escalator speeds, how people stood, and recording durations from each location, the punched strips run asynchronously (out of sync). It feels as if each city is spinning to its own time zone and rhythm; they occasionally intersect, only to pass each other by the next second. These staggered sounds generate "infinite melodic combinations," turning the site into a piece of music that will never repeat exactly the same way. The current baseline exhibition features 9 units, representing mapped data from 9 global regions: London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Beijing, Jinan, Hong Kong, Seoul, Vatican City, and Florence.
Artist@ Sarah Pardi
Sprinkles
Description
I'm interested in the movement of memory and thought. I'm interested in how the mind layers memory and feeling, past, present, and future over itself so that our thoughts become little pieces of art on their own, unable to ever be reproduced or shared with the world. This painting tries to capture the way that the mind remembers, thinks, hopes, and feels in a nano-second.
Artist: Rabia
https://www.instagram.com/raaabees/
Silent Echos
Description: Silent Echoes explores writing as an embodied act rather than a vehicle for communication. Composed entirely from handwritten English text, the work transforms the repetitive gesture of writing into a meditative visual process, where language gradually dissolves into texture, rhythm, and form. As words lose their readability, they cease to function as carriers of meaning and instead become traces of physical movement, evidence of a body once in motion. Structured through concentric circles, the composition evokes ripples, echoes, and the cyclical nature of memory, suggesting that every gesture leaves an imprint long after the action itself has ended. The layered accumulation of handwritten marks records both the movement of the hand and the passage of time, while the black ink ruptures interrupt the ordered rhythm, introducing moments of tension, disruption, and unpredictability within an otherwise continuous flow. Although the work is physically still, it remains visually active. The eye is drawn inward and outward through the circular structure, continuously navigating between order and interruption, text and abstraction. In this way, movement is not represented but experienced through perception. Silent Echoes proposes that stillness is never the absence of movement; rather, it is the condition in which movement endures as memory, residue, and trace. The work invites viewers to consider writing not simply as language, but as a performative act whose gestures continue to resonate even after the hand has fallen silent.
Artist: Sarah D'Souza
https://studiofridays.com/artists/sarah-dsouza/
@sarah.dsouza.art
https://www.instagram.com/sarah.dsouza.art/ and @sarahdsouza https://substack.com/@sarahdsouza and @sarahdsouzaart https://www.youtube.com/@sarahdsouzaart
Description: Grey Area I-III is a multi-disciplinary work comprising 3D assemblage, performance video and a 100-day digital performance/photographic archive (Instagram). It features the changing of a pillowcase 100 times with charcoal-dusted hands. The work responds to the decommissioning of hotel bed linen after 100 industrial washes - the point at which cotton degrades from the repeated application of intense heat and chemical brighteners. It explores the essence of movement through repetition, accumulation, and patination, converting the invisible, routine choreography of maintenance into a permanent grey smear. The progressive greyscale reveals a history of effort; the charcoal-dust a witness to the tugging, pulling, and manipulation involved in the change process. The final pillow and pillowcase retain the physical residue of expended energy, a monument to motion long after the performance has ended. As a site-specific metaphor, the hotel represents transitoriness and the restlessness of body and spirit. Through this repetitive performance, the bed linen undergoes a physical degradation that mirrors the relentless ageing of the body, confronting viewers with their own internal landscape of depletion and impermanence. In documenting what remains when movement stops, Grey Area invites the viewer to consider the hidden worlds of maintenance that support the architecture of rest. Ultimately, the work inhabits a metaphorical grey area. By using materials like charcoal and referencing the greyscale, it questions how art aestheticises labour. It exposes the artist’s complicity within systems of consumption, waste, and equity and the acts of laundering that render them acceptable.