The artist discusses her video installation featured in the 18th Festival’s Southern Panoramas competitive show. According to Mcgilchrist, the piece was created while she took a postgraduate photography course in London. During that period, she was photographing and filming the London nightclub scene, but deemed the results unsatisfactory. Her attempt to avoid clichés associated to the English underground rave party imagery originated Elation – which decontextualizes the characters found on dance floors, inserting them in a neutral scenery. She also recounts how she arrived at the piece’s soundtrack, composed of a minimal beat reminiscent of a heartbeat. Finally, she discusses her future projects, based around a feminist take on Jamaican popular culture.
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