In May 2021, I undertook an Experimental Film & Moving Image residency at Cove Park, supported by LUX Scotland and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.
During the residency, I researched public sex and its intersections with disability, engaged with the instructions from Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson’s SWAMP (1969), and explored how bats navigate. This investigation included considering various types of recording devices and prosthetics. The residency was research-intensive, and I drew inspiration from T Fleischmann’s 2019 text Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, which was kindly recommended by Jamie Crewe.
Some of this research was shared during Glasgow International Festival at Bonjour, a new queer bar and community hub in Glasgow. The residency formed part of the foundation for my moving-image work SWAMPS, completed in 2022.