Hostess and Live Shows

Category overview

Performance-led viewing

The Shows category collects hostess performances and live broadcast material. Listings here sit alongside the site's other sections, so you can move between subtitle releases, domestic productions and the numbered video zones without leaving the catalogue.

Entries are organised by category name rather than by a single format, which means a mix of performance styles appears together in the same listing.

Light behaves less like illumination and more like a material in this body of work, where glass, neon and water are set against one another until each begins to borrow the qualities of the others. A blown form may hold a glow, a sheet of plastic may bend a beam into a mirage, and a lens may catch the Pacific at the exact moment the fog lifts. The installations tend toward the experiential rather than the declarative, inviting a slow gaze instead of a quick read, and leaving room for the senses to do the interpreting.

Many pieces begin outdoors, in gardens and wilderness where foraged leaves, rocks and flora enter the studio as collaborators rather than subjects. Filmed sequences of waves, flight and falling water carry that same attention to movement back into the gallery, where video and sound extend a moment well past its natural duration. The result is a quiet crossing between the specific place something was captured and the interior space where it is later encountered, so that a forest trail and a darkened room can feel like parallel lives of the same observation.

Across the catalogue, categories overlap by intention, allowing performance, broadcast material and numbered video zones to sit beside one another without forcing a single format. This arrangement mirrors the work itself, which resists tidy separation between sculpture, film and installation. A visitor might move from a study of ultraviolet light to a collaborative sound piece to a meditation on sleep and wakefulness, finding continuity in the shared vocabulary of glow, reflection and drift, and in the persistent sense that looking closely is its own kind of participation.