Scape (2022) - Elvis Booth-Claveria, The Doll

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A still from the video work. Two bodies lay over each other cross ways and face down. The bottom person is up on their elbows making for a 'bridge' shape. The image os slightly blurred with a transparent layer that appears to be a churning sea.

A long flower stalk coming directly from the root.
Both our bodies and our environments wear the marks of our circumstances and labour bibliographically. The impressionable and changeable states of water and land represent the shared transitional potential that our natural environment as well as our bodies possess.

Elvis looks into a funhouse mirror that repeats their image towards infinity.

Elvis Booth-Claveria (they/them) a Whanganui-a-Tara based artist currently studying a BFA at Toi Rauwhārangi CoCA. Primarily practicing in choreographic and performance based video and kinetic sculpture with special interest in queer identity, body and environmental relationships and organic materiality.

The Doll is a blurred shape in the throes of performance. There are a row of tiny little amps in front of The Doll

The Doll (she/her/doll) is a Pātea-based artist who has been making no-fi sounds since 2004. She likes to augment her vocals with contact mics, balloons, magnetic tape, percussion junk, garbage from the side of the road, horns, household appliances, a T-Pain mic, and field recordings.
The Doll loves improvisational collaboration, especially the projects tujuh kuda with Dea Karina (Indonesia/Berlin), Toxic Octopus with Toxic Chicken (Nederland), and this brand new piece with Elvis Booth-Claveria for Pyramid Club. She also enjoys online collaborations which you can find on dadashopping along with some solo stuff.