Kymberley Ward
Bureautix, 2013, TENT, Rotterdam
Four channel video (synchronized), 15:35 mins & installation, walls x 2, sculpture-props, lightbox, cables
4 video stills

 
 

Description:
A group of people meet in an illicit huddle at dusk and are led by a tour guide to a disused office space. There, they each receive a task such as cold-calling or book keeping, and begin work. The pleasure they get from these jobs, and the pressure of an imposed deadline turns a prop-office into a fetish club. 

Dregwhisking, 2013/14
Stand-up routine performance, written by Chris Boyd & Kym Ward, various locations, Rotterdam, and TENT at Art Rotterdam

Kymberley Ward
Market Research – Because No Body is Predictable, 2012
Nature Morte, New Delhi
Installation & participatory performance

 
 

Media Markt Crush #2, 2013, Rotterdam
Kym Ward & Olivia Dunbar
Video to performance intervention to video (03:00 mins), variable

Description:

Stills screen-grabbed from shuttershock, Youtube videos of London riots or bird mating, and studio images are mixed with UK grime, pirate radio and Drum & Bass. We then do a swap with the guy from Media Markt. As he tries to sell me a flatscreen, we take over one TV out of the hundreds flashing in the store. I curate Olivia Dunbar’s art practice into the mega store, the audience have been forewarned to try to look like normal shoppers and not draw attention to themselves. This is one instance in a continuing practice of Media Markt Crushes around Germany & The Netherlands. We then take the performance footage, re-edit, reappropriate, and spit it back out again in various guises.

Kymberley Ward
PRAXISpractice, 2012;
part of ‘Three Artists walked into a bar’, De Appel Curatorial program
Video 06:32 mins

Description:

This short video shows the artist wandering around the Dutch DIY store PRAXIS, trying to help customers. She is dressed in a similar yet badly remade PRAXIS uniform, and quite obviously doesn’t know the store well.  She offers small, quite crap magic trics to employees, which they either laugh at or ignore.  The activity or intended usefulness of the ersatz employee in the video is somewhat of a rupture in the social contract of the shopper/worker, it adds free labour that is neither asked for nor needed. Instead of an: “I’d rather not”, the video posits an: ‘I’d rather!’, as the character performs having a choice, and choosing to help out in PRAXIS.