The Conch

This edition of The Conch brings together artists who explore domestic architectures as sites of labour and performance. The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development. After each presentation, the audience is invited to respond by sharing their thoughts, questions and reflections. Georgina Hill The performance explores the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, where families - often women - produced goods by hand from their homes alongside the growth of industrial manufacturing. Drawing on family histories, personal records and fragmented archives, the work constructs a speculative narrative of domestic labour and the lives behind it. Alia Hamaoui Using behind the scenes footage taken from the making of the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, Alia re-works the script, footage and sound to continue her enquiry into the potential of space as the driver of narrative action. Making architecture and objects the subject of this performance, Alia folds different temporalities through the use of rehearsal material and layered framing. Beatrice Vorster BOO! is a performance which emerges from Unfinished Business, an upcoming short film. Made in collaboration with Yasmin Vardi, the work deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. Set in a for-sale property, equipped with smart home features, the house seeks its revenge in poltergeist fashion. The performance expands the parameters of the film and remixes it - accompanied by a sound sculpture, a reel-to-reel tape machine, and foley ripped from movies.