Tables of Power / 2026 / 11 min

 

The video Tables of Power was commissioned and developed around a large sugar sculptural installation of the same title exhibited in the group show State of Wander: Towards Environmental Restoration at Museum Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. A group of performers circle around and around a table, slowly repositioning the small animal figures and negotiating territory through gestures that resemble ritual. Some grunt softly, others lock eyes with their opponents, a few remain motionless and staring. Their movements suggest exchange and strategy, oscillating between play and confrontation. The work reveals how imagination and history converge in the human impulse to order, possess, and govern the natural world.

 

Performance artists; Shruti Shandilya, Zan Breathnach , Fabiano Roggio, Oliver Alison, Norman Allison, Day Magee, Anders Larsen, and Eduard Kalmakov. Crew; Gráinne Galvin (DOP), Adriana Ribeiro (Production Assistant), Rory Fitzpatrick (Lighting technician), Jakub Bajerski (1st Assistant Camera), Danilo Zambrano (sound recording), Michael Higgins (edit and grade), Alyssa Moxley (original music, sound design and mix).

The work was supported by bpd Cultuurfonds, Mondrian fond and Vrienden Loterij

 

 



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