Lucy Cash is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed media installations, moving-image works, collaborative performance, and writing emerge out of her background in performance and choreography.
Between 2005 and 2009 she was an associate member of USA-based Goat Island performance, making four moving-image works which have screened internationally. In 2010 her choreographies for screen were awarded a fellowship from South East Dance.
Her single screen films have been shown on BBC2, BBC4 and Ch4 and have included Requiem For The Redhead? a special commission for the centenary of Darwin’s Origin of the Species; Einstein and the Honey Bee, an animation which was shortlisted for the NZ environmental film award; Sight Reading (redux) which was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art prize (2016); We Shall Trip the Light Fantastic, a Random Acts commission for Ch4 and How The Earth Must See Itself, a National Theatre of Scotland commission, shortlisted for the 2019 Scottish short film award.
Her moving image installations have shown in galleries including, HZT and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago; Zahoor ul Akhal Gallery, Lahore; Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; Tramway, Glasgow; Dilston Grove, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and Natural History Museum, London.
Lucy’s practice includes curation, mentoring and practice-based teaching in both academic and public contexts.
Artist Statement
Lucy’s work is relational, often involving social exchange, unconventional forms of collaboration and unpredictable alignments that reveal the overlooked or forgotten. It has taken place in galleries, museums, libraries, housing estates, on water and in the air.
She engages choreographic processes to explore how we relate to one another - as humans, and as bodies that connect to other-than-human elements of the world.
Her interests lie in poesis and poetic forms; choreographic practices, and innovative forms of hosting, care & curation.
In previous works she has asked, ‘how does a library move?’ creating sound installations and temporary site-specific sculptures for a library in London; explored the act of singing as a gesture of solidarity, harmony and strength with communities in Nine Elms, London; investigated acts of naming in a research residency at the Foundling Museum; delved into the process of how we see for a year-long educational residency with Whitechapel Gallery and co-created a week of daily performances for the OperaEstate in Bassano, Italy.
Lucy is regularly engaged in research, curation, and teaching. She creates courses and leads workshops in all kinds of formal and informal educational settings.
Interviews
improvisation and filmmaking interview: www.improfilmclub.com/podcast
HZT Berlin Open lecture: vimeo.com/114796402
Whitechapel Artists in Residence interview: vimeo.com/76974193
Dance-tech TV interview: dance-tech.tv/videos/what-matters-festival-2012-becky-edmunds-lucy-cash-london-uk/
