We present Glitch Guisers, a free performance by Nina Davies in the streets outside the Gallery. This live event develops from a fictional narrative emerging from Davies’ film Never Let Them Know Your Next Move, which will also be screening on the third floor in the Gallery through the evening.
The performance will feature five dancers, ‘glitch guising’ outside through Soho Photography Quarter to a central point, where they will freeze - a reference to the ‘Mannequin Challenge’, the online viral trend that began in 2016 in which participants stay still while a camera moves around them.
The films’ two protagonists discuss how labour became automated. As a way of reclaiming agency, workers performing tasks at a distribution centre develop a series of movements resembling a screen glitch. This confuses the system, allowing workers to take a break while machines attempt to figure out what the glitch is and how to fix it.
Event Details
Glitch Guisers coincides with a presentation of Nina Davies’ For An Imaginary Page. The performance takes place on the hour from 4pm – 7pm in Soho Photography Quarter. We encourage everyone to film the performances and celebrate this content the artist is creating for you and the online space.
We will also screen Never Let Them Know Your Next Move, commissioned by Seventeen Gallery, on 3rd Floor on a continuous loop. The film is 10 minutes long. All exhibitions in the Gallery are also free to enter until 8pm as part of the Friday lates.
Performers
Sula Castle, Jose Funnell, Christina Lovey, Duane Nasis & Luisa Rozo
Biography
Nina Davies (b. 1991) is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment through observing dance in popular culture. She questions how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed.
Davies creates moving image, installation and performance works, looking at dance trends in online spaces, such as TikTok, she considers these as traditional dances of the future, building up a language that is unique for our time, in a style that is made for the phone.
