Moving Matter is the culmination of a material-led process with artists from dance, costume design and film that began with a study of old kitchen flooring about to be discarded. This flax-based material enters our orbit in the 1950s, where a measured homelife and prescribed domesticity offered a reassuring antidote to bomb scares, political turmoil, and paranormativity. Stability topples as the flooring becomes entangled in the lives of those who don the material as garments and shelters. This film was made through Moving Matter, a long-term research-creation project that offers a methodology for rethinking the dynamism between raw materials, garments, and the body. Moving Matter steers the locus of choreography and wearable design away from human hierarchy to instead support truer collaboration amongst all moving materials, both human and non-human, in this case… linoleum.
Anna Wang Albini
as Dancer
Sydney Bluck
as Dancer
Olivia Johnson
as Dancer
Robert Kitsos
as The Father
Erika Latta
as The Mother
Max Tyler-Hite
as The Son
Michael Meneer
as The Host
Desiree James
as Dancer
Brett Palaschiuk
as Dancer
