Canon, 2020 Film

Canon explores the manifestation of three different, but equally impactful influences on the artist's body and identity: Bruce Lee, Spider-Man and an Indian squatting posture. Through animation he investigates what happens when these poses and postures are repeated and overlapped, combining popular and domestic culture from different parts of the world. The title references both the canon of culturally dominant postures, as well as what it means in dance choreography – a device where one dancer introduces a movement, which is then repeated exactly by subsequent dancers. ‘In this piece the canon actually breaks down as each of the different bodies have a different timing to the movement, I like that it starts to disrupt its own rule somehow.’