Blue Grid Test -[ Collaboration with Lubaina Himid] Wiels, Brussels, September 2020

Abstract

For Blue Grid Test I used the musicality of spoken language to mimic the painted patterns of the visual components. My choreographed and layered recording of Himid speaking phrases associated with blue in English, French and Flemish, highlighted through its effort and struggle that learning a language shows a real desire to properly belong. In a formation which mirrored the rhythm of the three-minute song Blue, both visual and audio mimicked each other, responding quite differently, allowing audiences the latitude to enter the narrative of the room in which they could hear a colour in several languages and see a rhythm through pattern simultaneously.

Blue Grid test was presented at Risquons-Tout exhibition which presented some of the most innovative and influential artists and authors of the Eurocore region which stretches from Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Düsseldorf and London.
The title of the exhibition refers to a locality located on the Franco-Belgian border, a space of transition, passages, informal exchanges and contraband.