Props and Actions 2

Props and Actions take a look at the contemporary social environment of the fitness-centre gym to consider the body's relationship to training and the equipment and machinery involved in the physical process and performance of perfecting the human body toward the production and making of the body ideal.

Looped video sequences focus on movements made by the body when using these machines, where isolated from its environment it expresses the thrust of a singular action that is continuously and mechanically repeated without end.

First shown as a five screen projected video installation with sound in the Upper Gym, Goldsmiths College, London 2006.