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This residency supports an R&D period for Laura & Lucas to experiment and collaborate, ahead of working together on a film installation of Laura’s project FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) in 2024. The film installation builds on a short work-in-progress which was made through three days of collaboration between Laura & Lucas and premiered at Rhubarb festival in Toronto in January 2023. The film uses the intimacy of the lens to capture up close an intimate relationship between Laura’s body and their sculptural collaborators (7 sheets of copper metal). It leans into themes of human X non-human entanglements, utilising close-up shots which ‘cut’ the body into abstract forms, queering and cripping notions of objectification, sexualisation and medicalisation.

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The residency will centre experimentation and collaboration, using the time to work together in the studio with the camera, getting to explore methods for capturing the material, experiment with the relationship between body/lens/sculpture and ways to acknowledge and play with concepts of gaze and the unseen body behind the camera.

Throughout the residency, we will create a moving image scrapbook, collaging ideas and materials through recording of film, sound and conversation to create a digital collage of our research and collaboration.

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Header Image: Film Still from work in progress film shared at Rhubarb Festival 2023. by Laura Fisher & Lucas Chih Peng Kao

​All Other images: Laura Fisher