VIDEO
VIDEO
‘Play With Me’, 2023, duration: 1:30s, sound installation in Glasgow School of Art Stow building
Audio description: tennis grunts, male heavy breathing, basketball bouncing.
‘Bodybuilding Ballet’, 2024, 5:59
Nordic Women's Bodybuilding competition with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Prokofiev’s Dance of Knights
‘Warm Up/Rehearsal’ , 2024, 5:26
Audio description: Sounds of effort, Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
Recreation of my adolescent soccer warm-up from memory
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
‘S is for Sandcastle’
2023, paper maché sandcastle, rocks, CDs, ceramic, sand, Heineken bottle, dimensions vary
Casual Friday, 2023
2023 Stills from performance at FLUXUS exhibition, December 2023, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, Scotland
Performance piece choreographed by Joshua Di Mattina-Beven and Hope Kennedy. Hair-shirts by Tess Cogen. Handstitched synthetic hair on collared dress shirts
Exhibition Text: Tess Cogen and Joshua Di Mattina-Beven can be found frolicking through your local wig shop and thinking about the ways gender and sexuality manifest in everyday absurdism. Suggestive, on the nose, uninterested in gallery representation - they make their way through the world collecting one dried orange peel at a time. But they have a dirty secret: They long for the 9-5, they long for the ball and chain, they long for the driest water cooler talk this world has ever seen. To be hair-shirted is to exult yourself in self-punishment. To be hair shirted is to drag your affection across the office floor. Going to level two please, I’ll see you for ‘Casual Friday’…