Hips: Phoebe Boswell
My film meditates on the word ‘hip’ and its myriad associations - bodily, linguistic, and cultural - to open up pathways of reflection through layered sound and intimate visuals. hip encapsulates a moment of pause. Lay down, breathe, be vulnerable, be soft, be critical, remove armour, just be', artist Phoebe Boswell explains of their film.
My film meditates on the word ‘hip’ and its myriad associations - bodily, linguistic, and cultural - to open up pathways of reflection through layered sound and intimate visuals. hip encapsulates a moment of pause. Lay down, breathe, be vulnerable, be soft, be critical, remove armour, just be', artist Phoebe Boswell explains of their film.
- How would you describe what you do?
Phoebe Boswell: Interdisciplinary artist
- What’s your background?
PB: British/Kenyan, born in Kenya, grew up in the Arabian Gulf, and currently live and work in London.
- What inspires you?
PB: Us. How we live, how we love, how we sense and rub up against one another. How we push against the system that binds us; how we create ecosystems of care within it. How we cultivate freedom, dreams, and imagine the future. How we got here.
- What is the ambition behind your practice?
PB: To make space. To be honest.
What did you hope to convey with your Bodies Of Knowledge film?
PB: My film meditates on the word 'hip' and its myriad associations - bodily, linguistic, and cultural - to open up pathways of reflection through layered sound and intimate visuals.
The film draws together excerpts of text from Wendell Berry, H.T. Johnson, Lucille Clifton, Shakira, the Arthritis Foundation, and Wikipedia’s notes on “hip (slang)”. Overlapping, undulating and drifting, as thoughts when we allow them to freely form and cascade, these chosen words are read by jazz musician JD Allen.
'hip.' encapsulates a moment of pause. Lay down, breathe, be vulnerable, be soft, be critical, remove armour, just be.
