WHO

Our ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image. Dialogue is central to the way we create and produce our work. Our exchanges - private, public, remote, rehearsed and improvised - encompass research, anecdote, humour, and cultural criticism.

We treat our individual practices as constellational, and our shared practice combines our interests in modes of performance within socio-political contexts, often referencing narrative constructs such as pop music, cinema and soap operas, with a particular interest in how experiences of work and domesticity escalate in real and imagined ways. Our exchanges - whether private, public, rehearsed, improvised or otherwise - encompass anecdote, humour, cultural criticism and the failures of aspiration.

We have recently been developing work that considers methods and processes of private and public performance in relation to consumerism and emotional “health”. Our current research explores acting improvisation techniques that are prevalent in “self-help” and confidence culture, and frictions between individualised therapeutic pursuits and collective politics.

Our solo exhibition All You Need To Do Is Take It opened at GS artists, Swansea in June 2023.

We also work with others through live events, broadcasts, exhibitions, and workshops. Previous projects, residencies and commissions include WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art), Arnolfini, Bristol, 2023; Fieldwork Artist Residency, Southerdown, 2022, supported by Arts Council of Wales; Being Sharon, a performance for Experimentica Festival, Chapter, Cardiff, 2018; You Will Get the Credit, g39, Cardiff, 2018; On Record, a performance, exhibition and events programme commissioned for Cardiff Contemporary Festival, 2014; and On the Radio, commissioned for Pitch3 on Radio Cardiff in 2014.

Contact us by emailing freyadooleycinziamutigli (at) gmail.com

Cinzia Mutigli solo website: www.cinziamutigli.com
Freya Dooley solo website: www.freyadooley.com