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When we wrote our aims and objectives we felt it important to stress that we as a collective see every woman who comes here as having her own agency in the world and by that we mean that we see every woman as responsible for their own decisions, she hasn’t been able to be that before, but from now on she is a person who is responsible for her own decisions. What we aim to do is to give people back to themselves, Elsie volunteer, 1975.

In the dual image of Jiva Parthipan and his younger self, juxtaposed by collaborating artist Zanny Begg—there’s a moving duo playing out on two digital screens. Two clear tempos are established as the younger body on the left screen enjoys his strength, with an articulated and extended left leg voraciously eating up space, casting the shadows of Indian classical and contemporary dance training, frenetic in its corporeal understanding of space. On the right screen, an older Jiva harnesses stillness—moving slowly with the gravitas of a theatrical stage walk—seemingly simple, but, in the tremors of Parkinson’s Disease, this movement is miraculous. The two bodies are in a netherworld, a psychological space, in communion with each other—or is it a reckoning?

Paschal Daantos Berry