Charlotte Emerton-Rolfe

Extended Joints & Strained Flesh

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Inspired by Sima Gonsai’s artist talk and work, Extended Joints & Strained Flesh is an amateur, improvised dance Josephine Maxwell and I collaborated on. We move, contort and feel through the connection between our hypermobility and slugs. Our movements refer to the Beighton Scoring System, used to assess hypermobility. Influenced by the film Annihilation (2018), we mimic each other, losing ourselves and our ownership of our movement to a feedback loop.

Extended Joints & Strained Flesh, (April 2025), video projection, dimensions variable.

Projection Test 1a for Extended Joints & Strained Flesh: Projecting onto the Slug Helmets.

Projection Test 1b for Extended Joints & Strained Flesh: Projecting onto the Slug Helmets.

Projection Test 2 for Extended Joints & Strained Flesh: Projecting onto the wall.

Projection Test 3 for Extended Joints & Strained Flesh: Projecting onto the wall. Slug Helmets are used as floor-based sculptures.

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