I am looking for trans artists to contribute to a short film. With this work I hope to present people’s thoughts about who they are, using place as metaphor or context.

All contributions will be credited, and the work will be shown in a group exhibition at Castlefield Gallery Manchester https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk 22nd November 2020 -17th January 2021.

The exhibition is titled Obstructions and involves the artists remaking an existing work.

I’m remaking Disorderly Paradise https://vimeo.com/392989826, in which women choose a place and speak about why it is important to them as a person – producing nine very different representations of female subjectivity. I’d like to develop the work to encompass different gender-fluid subjectivities.

I’m asking trans-artists to record images and sounds of a place of significance to them and to who they are, and to sound-record themselves speaking about why they chose the place and how it represents them. I will seek your approval of the final film before it is shown to check you are happy with how your material is being used. 

If you’re interested in participating and would like more information please contact me at sabrina@sabrinafuller.com and we can have arrange to have a chat. More information about my practice and examples of the work I make can be found at sabrinafuller.com.

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 My practice: I am interested in difference - how objectification and exclusion give license to develop alternative ways of being, other languages, and unlikely alliances. I generally explore difference through a feminist lens. Participation, collaboration, and giving voice are fundamental to my practice. 

 In the original film I ask a number of different women to perform an expression of their subjectivity in a place of their choosing and to explain to me why they chose that place to represent them. The film is structured by the themes that emerge from the different women’s stories: contradictory or congruent, contrasting or confluent: nine very different representations of female subjectivity. 

For the remake I am hoping to work with around ten different gender-fluid artists.  I would ask you to choose a place, to film, photograph or paint it and to record its sounds or its silences. And then I will ask you to speak about that place and what it means to you, why you’ve chosen it, how it affects you, why it’s important: to speak for as long as you like and record yourself, preferably unscripted.

I’m interested in how people relate to place, in how a place can represent who you are, metaphorically or through giving a context to you as a person. I am interested in the images you make of that place, in the sounds you record there, and in how you speak about what it means to you, what you say and how you say it. 

 I’ll edit the film first of all by listening to what each artist has to say, and understanding what are the themes that emerge, and how each one of you deals with that theme. Your words will be paired with your own images. The rhythm and pace of the film will come from the flow of ideas and images, how they come together to reinforce, resist, reiterate, riff on each other, or how they act to disrupt the flow, to surprise or startle. 

 I’m interested in how your point of view flows into those of the other subjects – how both differences and similarities emerge, how in one moment several voices form a chorus and in the next a solo voice emerges. I am interested in counterpoint, in how new meanings emerge from the bringing together of contrasting voices, perspectives and points of view. 

 You will be fully credited for your contribution. I will show you the film before it is finished to make sure you are entirely happy with how I use your material – if you are aren’t then I’ll change it or take it out.  

 The instruction I have been given in remaking the film is to widen the range of participants. My interest is in difference, and the creativity that comes with that difference, which is why I want to focus this project on exploring the thoughts and feelings of those with a wider and more fluid gender self-definition.