The Soft Rebellions of Chloë Brown
The Soft Rebellions of Chloë Brown.
Published in Topographies of The Obsolete, Phase Two: Rhizomatic Trajectories, 2020.
An exploration of the idea of 'Soft rebellion' in the work of Chloë Brown.
"Chloë Brown’s Soft Rebellions have so far included:
Drawing
Dancing
Eating
Talking
Applauding
Gathering
Chanting
Yelling
Softness
Softness seen as a female attribute. Here softness is re-appropriated as power, revolt. Power to embrace a soft rebellion; celebratory rebellion that captures the pain of past and of present realities, but doesn’t linger on woe – it strives to move forward.
Rebellion
There is something joyous in the idea and indeed in the acts themselves.
The push and pull of boundaries and crossing them is an expression of freedom, desire, danger, of jouissance. To rebel is not necessarily to reject, but perhaps to accept alterity; to approach potentiality.
The work is site-specific in a loose, connective sense; this specificity travels with the work, with screenings and showings imbuing spaces with convivial strength, emotion. Here, movement is moving. Momentarily connected bodies extend across places, and beyond the screen to an audience over and over." - Excerpt.
Published in Topographies of The Obsolete, Phase Two: Rhizomatic Trajectories, 2020.
An exploration of the idea of 'Soft rebellion' in the work of Chloë Brown.
"Chloë Brown’s Soft Rebellions have so far included:
Drawing
Dancing
Eating
Talking
Applauding
Gathering
Chanting
Yelling
Softness
Softness seen as a female attribute. Here softness is re-appropriated as power, revolt. Power to embrace a soft rebellion; celebratory rebellion that captures the pain of past and of present realities, but doesn’t linger on woe – it strives to move forward.
Rebellion
There is something joyous in the idea and indeed in the acts themselves.
The push and pull of boundaries and crossing them is an expression of freedom, desire, danger, of jouissance. To rebel is not necessarily to reject, but perhaps to accept alterity; to approach potentiality.
The work is site-specific in a loose, connective sense; this specificity travels with the work, with screenings and showings imbuing spaces with convivial strength, emotion. Here, movement is moving. Momentarily connected bodies extend across places, and beyond the screen to an audience over and over." - Excerpt.
