Our work Our creative programme Emergent Liberty Hodes Latest collaboration: Liberty was shortlisted for the 2024 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist statement: Liberty Hodes is a multi-disciplinary artist and facilitator based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, primarily working in performance-making, video and sculpture. They work in a way which is fizzy and ideas-first, often stemming from a desire to embody and enact the non-human. Liberty's work often adopts the language of British Folk Culture and is pre-occupied by a sense of place and how humans see ourselves reflected in the landscape as it changes through demolition and re-building. They are interested in using historical tropes of performance to explore contemporary experiences. Follow Liberty on Instagram Check out their website Image courtesy of the artist. Description: six photographs presented in a 2x3 grid. They document a performance in which an artist is dressed in a costume resembling a high-rise like building painted naively onto cardboard. As the sequence develops, the artist falls down, mimicking demolition, as the costume is damaged in the fall. Banner image: credit Racheal Deakin. Description: photograph of a performance in public at night, taking place in what appears to be an underpass, lit with neon-hued lights. Four performers stand in a crescent shape, facing where we assume the audience to be. They are each dressed in a costume resembling a large rock or stone in different shapes and sizes, but all covering all of their bodies excluding their faces, which poke out from a hole near the top. Manage Cookie Preferences