We move in her way, 2017, Video
- Medium
- Seven synchronised videos with sound and wallpaper installation.
- Dimensions
- Dimensions variable. Duration: 18 minutes Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2017
For Boyce’s solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2017, she created a newly commissioned body of work. We move in her way involved the exploratory vocal and movement performances of Elaine Mitchener, Barbara Gamper and her dancers Eve Stainton, Ria Uttridge and Be van Vark, with an invited audience. The title of the work suggests two possible readings: that ‘she’ dictates our movements, or that we obstruct ‘hers’, with both interpretations suggesting power is at play.
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Boyce has a participatory art practice where she invites others to engage performatively with improvisation. In this process, she encourages contributors to exercise their own responses to the situations she enables, where she steps back from any directorial position to observe the activities and dynamics of exchange as they unfold.
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We move in her way was created in this way as a performative laboratory, in which the audience and performers negotiated the ICA theatre space around sculptural objects and their own bodies. Play and playfulness unfolded during the open-ended live performance, sparking a breakdown of assumed order between performers and audience. The dynamics of power-play shifted between the masked audience, the performers and the sculptural objects created as a means to facilitate touch and being together, whilst remaining distinct.
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Notions of difference and relatedness make reference to the enduring influence of Dada within We move in her way. Processes of collaborative improvisation are exemplified in the piece, referencing the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark in the late 1960s and 70s. Some of the masks worn by the audience are a re-working of Sophie Tauber’s Dada Head (1920) – itself an appropriation of Oceanic sculpture.
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Once the performance was played out and documented, Boyce reshaped the material generated, in what she calls “recouping the remains”, to create the artwork as a seven channel multi-media installation.
Wallpaper series
Silhouette
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Mid Century Optimism
2025
Geo-Candy
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Entering the Disco
2025
Clapping Wallpaper 2
2024
Braided Wallpaper
2023
Coloured Wallpaper
2023
FEELING HER WAY
2022
Ain't Misbehavin'
2022
We move in her way
2017
Just One Minute More
2016-2022
Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018
Crop Over
2007
Lover's Rock
1998
Head I (Skin) / Head II (Dread)
1995
They're Almost Like Twins
1995
Clapping Wallpaper
1994
Related theme: Performance
Merriment Lights
2025
Very dark Ope
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Backlit
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Blue jacket
2025
Man, glass of wine
2025
Michael & swishing braids 03
2025
Entering the Disco
2025
Bridie's daughter (Yewa)
2025
Dancers cast silhouette
2025
Grey Jumper
2025
Purple Lights (Lisa)
2025
Hands up
2025
Michael & swishing braids 02
2025
Ope
2025
Silent Disco
2025
Silhouette
2025
Two in motion together (Ere & Toyin)
2025
Michael & swishing braids 01
2025
Judah
2025
Orange scarf (Sola)
2025
Green light (Kate)
2025
Selina
2025
Put Your Hands Together
2024
BENEVOLENCE
2024
In the Mix: Disciples Together
2022
On My Way
2022
FEELING HER WAY
2022
In the Mix: Shirley Songs
2022
In the Mix: Skunk Sputnik
2022
Ain't Misbehavin'
2022
In the Mix: Hippy Liberty
2022
Yes, I Hear You
2022
Family Gorgeous Smudged
2022
In the Mix: Mel & Kim Respect
2022
In the Mix: Alexandra B’s Dress
2022
P. P. Arnold / Just call me angel of the morning
2021
Miss Elizabeth Welch 1933 – 1940 / a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
2021
Sheila Chandra / Ever so lonely MONSOON
2021
Shirley Bassey / Goldfinger
2021
Sade / The Sweetest Taboo
2021
Polystyrene / X-ray Spex OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!
2021
Six Acts
2018
The Audition
1997 - printed 2018
We move in her way
2017
Just One Minute More
2016-2022
Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (Dada Nice)
2016
Exquisite Cacophony
2015
Move
2013
Dance of Belém
2011
Gather:Justicia
2010
Oh Adelaide (with Ain Bailey)
2010
Taken
2009
Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018
Drift
2008
For you, only you
2007
Crop Over
2007
Exquisite Tension
2006
1930s to 1960s – The Rivington Place Portfolio
2006
Devotional II
2005
Devotional, 2004
2004
Related theme: Participatory / Collaboration
Very dark Ope
2025
Blue jacket
2025
Backlit
2025
Man, glass of wine
2025
Michael & swishing braids 03
2025
Entering the Disco
2025
Bridie's daughter (Yewa)
2025
Dancers cast silhouette
2025
Grey Jumper
2025
Silhouette
2025
Purple Lights (Lisa)
2025
Hands up
2025
Michael & swishing braids 02
2025
Judah
2025
Green light (Kate)
2025
Two in motion together (Ere & Toyin)
2025
Michael & swishing braids 01
2025
Orange scarf (Sola)
2025
Silent Disco
2025
Selina
2025
Ope
2025
Merriment Lights
2025
BENEVOLENCE
2024
Yes, I Hear You
2022
FEELING HER WAY
2022
Ain't Misbehavin'
2022
Family Gorgeous Smudged
2022
In the Castle of My Skin
2020 - 2021
The Audition in Colour
1997 - printed 2020
The Audition
1997 - printed 2018
Six Acts
2018
We move in her way
2017
Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (Dada Nice)
2016
Exquisite Cacophony
2015
Move
2013
Dance of Belém
2011
Oh Adelaide (with Ain Bailey)
2010
Gather:Justicia
2010
Taken
2009
Devotional Wallpaper and Placards
2008 - 2018
Drift
2008
Crop Over
2007
For you, only you
2007
Exquisite Tension
2006
Devotional II
2005
Devotional, 2004
2004
Tongues
1997
They're Almost Like Twins
1995
Untitled (Kiss)
1995