If you jump on a moving party tram, where do you land? (2024)
First shown at Beyond Boundaries residency show, 29 January 2024 at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Single channel HD video with sound. 9mins 33secs
This film, made on a residency in Milan, is a meditation on the in-betweens of purgatory, journeying, and queerness. Taking a first-person journey on a party tram through Milan’s Monumental Cemetery, the film explores the idea of purgatory as a journey, and the glitch as a queer form of refusal. In Dante’s “Purgatorio”, purgatory is described as a journey of suffering up a cone- shaped mountain, and a similar shaped mausoleum in the Cemetery forms a central motif in the film. The glitch’s refusal to perform is compared to a queer nightlife experience of spiralling into a timeless, boundless zone, but the glitch is also considered as its own ritual space, where the eternal scroll might transcend into something sacred.
Shown in SLQS Relation de Voyage screening programme, with three original UV prints on brushed steel. Please contact SLQS Gallery for sales enquiries.
With thanks to BJCEM, UK New Artists and Fabbrica del Vapore for their support in the making of this film, and thanks also to DiscoTram Milan.
“A ritual of anxiety, the endless scroll, endless loop, eternal waiting whilst the nervous system tries to regulate itself is something Danaher explores: what are we all doing, honestly, on this mad little journey and where do we get off?”
Three unique UV prints on brushed steel are on sale through SLQS Gallery to mark the launch of the gallery and its screening programme Relation de Voyage. Please contact SLQS Gallery for sales enquiries.