Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley | Days of Action

‘Days of Action’ is a series of works in progress that respond to and exposes latent forces within political, architectural and cultural locations. They bring the well-rehearsed moves of different spatial and social logics into productive tension to document and reveal what may be inherent or imagined within a place but typically lies unseen.

Within the series, movement is understood as a social, spatial and political act. Central to this understanding is the exertion of power – power to move and power over the movement of individual and collective bodies, whether this is exerted by a social group in pursuit of a common goal, or by architecture and its associated social codes and rituals that shape the choreography of everyday movement.

Days of Action currently consists of four works; Revolution Between Two Points and Uprising, created during the artists’ residency at The French Communist Party Headquarters in 2016; Solidarity Line and What is the Building Calling For, created for the Tate Modern in 2018.

The works use formal motions to enact political devices, such as the artist enacting revolution as she spins back and forth within the curvilinear underground corridor of the Communist Party Headquarters in Revolution Between Two Points, 2016, or use collective devices from civic resistance and direct democratic assembly to explore particular relations of ’them’ and ‘us’, ‘I’ and ‘we’, as in Solidarity Line, 2018. This work enacted in Tate Modern used the bodily formation of the defence line that instead of defending territory became a transient line – a moving border, a living architectural element.