Resurfacing Labour: Embodying gesture from the English Channel to the Thames

Vernacular Maps of Tibet: Srinmo and Gorshey

Resurfacing Labour and The Vernacular Maps of Tibet explore how land, labour, and cultural memory are mapped, erased, and reasserted through contested spatial imaginaries. Set across Camley Street, the Thames, and Tibet, they reframe sites of exchange—marketplaces, rivers, rituals, and dance—as architectures of endurance shaped by colonial, ecological, and economic pressures.

Resurfacing Labour traces trade ecologies along the Thames and English Channel through participatory installation, costume, sound, and gesture. It highlights women’s labour and celebrates marketplaces as democratic, resistant spaces opposing erasure by gentrification and privatisation.

The Vernacular Maps of Tibet contrasts imperial mining maps with the ancient Srinmo demoness map and Gorshey, a communal circle dance. By mapping dance as living resistance, sculpting land in clay, and layering speculative cartographies from ecological and spiritual traditions, the work asserts that space is not fixed but performed—shaped by ritual, movement, resilience, and repair.