The Hands of God (2019)
interactive, open duration performance
Commissioned by Against the Run of Play
interactive, open duration performance
Commissioned by Against the Run of Play
During the Women’s World Cup 2019, I invited an audience to divine the outcome of the tournemant as a collective animal oracle, staging every game in miniature using a crab-like pinball football game. Accompanied by commentary from David Attenborough documentaries, strangers were invited to play against one another and channel what Donna Haraway calls ‘tentacular thinking.’
The work was made as a comment on the UK media’s historic lacklustre coverage of women’s football, reflected by the apparent absence of any predictions made this year by animals, a phenomenon of men’s World Cups since Paul the Octopus became a household name in 2010.
The work was made as a comment on the UK media’s historic lacklustre coverage of women’s football, reflected by the apparent absence of any predictions made this year by animals, a phenomenon of men’s World Cups since Paul the Octopus became a household name in 2010.