The One Minutes: Uncomfortable Encounters

‘Uncomfortable Encounters’ brings together works that move between the banal and the brutal, from the absurdities of everyday life to the structural violences that shape it. These works expose situations of unease, moments that are laughable, painful, humiliating, confusing, or deeply distressing. A girl is unstoppable, laughing out of fear or joy in a rollercoaster machine. A doll is attracted to a dog and its poop. A trans body reenacts Jesus’ crucifixion in remembrance of other LGBTQIA+ who suffered violence and death. A group of cleaners is fighting over a pile of garbage. Four dancers perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, signalling that something is wrong. Two art students play police. A politician explains Somali Politics. Someone drives a car through occupied land. A girl runs up a hill that never ends…