Beatrice Vorster and Yasmin Vardi have worked together since 2020, primarily focusing on moving-image.
Our practice centres on decoding cinematic archetypes, particularly of horror cinema, often parodying structural and narrative conventions of specific subgenres in the horror canon. We are motivated by understanding cinema as a construction of our realities and identities. We believe this understanding is key to examining our current political moment which is both determined by - and saturated in - audiovisual media.
The feminine position is central to our process of encoding and decoding. Throughout our body of work, we examine mechanisms of tension through humour, vulnerability and cliches. Considering the subgenre as a direct pipeline of social anxiety, our practice is one of distillation: the cross-section of power and desire. It examines the power of suggestion, reaching towards what is hidden through techniques of absenting and remaking. The relationship between sound and image lies at the core of this onscreen/offscreen tension.
Our practice centres on decoding cinematic archetypes, particularly of horror cinema, often parodying structural and narrative conventions of specific subgenres in the horror canon. We are motivated by understanding cinema as a construction of our realities and identities. We believe this understanding is key to examining our current political moment which is both determined by - and saturated in - audiovisual media.
The feminine position is central to our process of encoding and decoding. Throughout our body of work, we examine mechanisms of tension through humour, vulnerability and cliches. Considering the subgenre as a direct pipeline of social anxiety, our practice is one of distillation: the cross-section of power and desire. It examines the power of suggestion, reaching towards what is hidden through techniques of absenting and remaking. The relationship between sound and image lies at the core of this onscreen/offscreen tension.
2024
Edge Cases, screening with live score, TACO!, London.
VHS, screening, TACO!, London.
2023
bootleg vampire, screening & conference paper, Parrallax, ASP, Katowice.
who’s coming after me II, group exhibition, CDA, IL.
2022
i <3 your output, screening, greengrassi, London.
Sweatshop, YV solo show, Generation and Display, London.
proxy, audiovisual broadcast project, Iklectik, London.
2021
Solidarity is a verb (proxy by choice), Akademie Solitude, Germany.- shortlisted.
Edge Cases, screening with live score, TACO!, London.
VHS, screening, TACO!, London.
2023
bootleg vampire, screening & conference paper, Parrallax, ASP, Katowice.
who’s coming after me II, group exhibition, CDA, IL.
2022
i <3 your output, screening, greengrassi, London.
Sweatshop, YV solo show, Generation and Display, London.
proxy, audiovisual broadcast project, Iklectik, London.
2021
Solidarity is a verb (proxy by choice), Akademie Solitude, Germany.- shortlisted.
BAD APPLES
2024 single channel video, 7 minsBAD APPLES deploys the iconography of the ‘apple’ as an actor caught in the cross-section of power and desire. It examines the rationalisation of the ‘bad apple’ which removes institutional responsibility while subtle gestures negotiate the technologies of power and subordination.
extract , full version on request.
VHS, screening, TACO!, London.
a woman runs away from something
2024 single channel video, 21 minsA woman runs away from something takes the skeleton of the home invasion subgenre and reimagines it through techniques of absenting. By removing the narrative and distilling the form to pure format, the film investigates the database mode of horror subgenre by instead highlighting the grammar of cinema.
Starring Fergus Robinson, Elli Antoniou and Amelie Mckee.
extract, full version on request.
Edge Cases, screening with live score, TACO!, London.
bootleg vampire
2023 single channel video, 15 minsThe onscreen vampire is a dataset; a composite formed through the production-line output of thousands of adaptations which spans audiovisual culture. Duplication is written into the fabric of the vampire as a figure of the undead - grave robbing is part of the narrative, accelerating the expansion of this hoard into online spaces.
extract , full version on request.
Parallax, screening & conference paper, ASP, Katowice.
stories
2023 single-channel video*click to view*
six feet under
2023 single channel video, 7 minsextract, full version on request.
who’s coming after me II, group exhibition, CDA, IL.
SWEAT!
2023 single channel video, 19 minsSweatshop departs from the process of perspiration (sweat) - an internal process that manifests stress, modifying temperature, as well as an intimate manifestation of effort and pleasure. The work deals with information trade and body and emotions as commerce highlighting the intricate enmeshment of technology with bodies, exploitation, violence and labor. The video uses actuarial tables, a discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in insurance, finance, and other industries and professions. More generally, actuaries apply rigorous mathematics to model matters of uncertainty.
extract, full version available on request.
Sweatshop, YV solo show, Generation & Display, London.
proxy.mp4
2022 single-channel video with live performance, 25 mins&
2021 single-channel video, 8 mins
extract, full version on request.
i <3 your output, screening, greengrassi, London.
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proxy, audiovisual broadcast project, Iklectik, London.
BAD APPLES
2024 single channel video, 7 mins BAD APPLES deploys the iconography of the ‘apple’ as an actor caught in the cross-section of power and desire. It examines the rationalisation of the ‘bad apple’ which removes institutional responsibility while subtle gestures negotiate the technologies of power and subordination.
extract , full version on request.
a woman runs away from something
2024 single channel video, 21 minsA woman runs away from something takes the skeleton of the home invasion subgenre and reimagines it through techniques of absenting. By removing the narrative and distilling the form to pure format, the film investigates the database mode of horror subgenre by instead highlighting the grammar of cinema.
Starring Fergus Robinson, Elli Antoniou and Amelie Mckee.
extracts, full version available on request.
bootleg vampire
2024, single channel video, 15 minsThe onscreen vampire is a dataset; a composite formed through the production-line output of thousands of adaptations which spans audiovisual culture. Duplication is written into the fabric of the vampire as a figure of the undead - grave robbing is part of the narrative, accelerating the expansion of this hoard into online spaces.
extracts, full version available on request.
SWEAT!
2022, single channel video, 19 minsSweatshop departs from the process of perspiration (sweat) - an internal process that manifests stress, modifying temperature, as well as an intimate manifestation of effort and pleasure. The work deals with information trade and body and emotions as commerce highlighting the intricate enmeshment of technology with bodies, exploitation, violence and labor. The video uses actuarial tables, a discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in insurance, finance, and other industries and professions. More generally, actuaries apply rigorous mathematics to model matters of uncertainty.
extract, full version available on request.
proxy04.mp4
2022 single-channel video with live performance, 25 minsA trailer of a poetic encryption of the concept of proxy. Proxy as the agent of cybernetic anarchy and a deep dive into the notion of bypass and the body. Looking at the act of acting through substitution and phishing for proxy as a fictioning device.
proxy01.mp4
2021 single-channel video, 8 minsextracts, full versions available on request.