Performance

The Supercompensation Cycle by Emma Smith

30 Jul 2022

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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The Supercompensation Cycle by artist Emma Smith with live performance by Ya Ya Bones at 3.30pm at Olympic Way, Wembley.

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The Supercompensation Cycle is a new large scale public artwork by artist Emma Smith, commissioned as part of the arts and heritage programme to celebrate the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England, the work has engaged residents across the WEURO's host cities who appear in the artwork in digital form, accompanied by 

The Supercompensation Cycle weaves together everyday moves which people have perfected through repetition to create a warm-up montage. The artwork is inspired by the abstract moves of warm up routines found in archival footage of women’s football and the players who sustained the women’s game during an era when it was declared that football was not something women should do with their bodies. Movements for the work have been collected through workshops across all host cities to celebrate every-day expertise in unrecognised movement.

Smith worked closely with renowned choreographer Lorena Randi to sample everyday movements from the lives of hundreds of participants and reimagine them as warm-ups for action. The moves were captured on film using green screen with Foreign Body Film. From making chapatis to crossing your fingers in anticipation, these workshops created a repertoire of abstract, personal, specific, and poignant moves from a diversity of cultures, ages, genders, faiths, and ethnicities.

The installation is presented as eleven holographic projections in reference to the number of players on a team, one for each city hosting the games and one for players across all cities. The work is staged within sculptural structures abstracted from the shape of a football, designed by Smith in collaboration with female-led architect firm vPPR.

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Emma Smith

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