Nathaniel Whitfield’s various engagements overlap, conflate, and diverge as his artistic roles shift between performer, collaborator, organizer, writer, curator and director.
Whitfield works with groups to investigate democratic dissensus, fragmentation and difference. Utilizing the critical methodology developed by contemporary cultural studies his work takes the form of performance, video, installation, public action, and education. He seeks to be in dialogue with, to rearticulate and to rematerialize the physical, political, discursive and linguistic spaces we inhabit.
His practice traverses an exploration of vocality and the material and symbolical conditions of the voice. Whilst interrogating the ways that people fall together and come apart he is interested in how various structures, institutions and architectures contain and facilitate such movements. He investigates the grammar of collectivity: how we construct and maintain social organizations and how these organizations are active social agents themselves.
Contact: NathanielWhitfield1@gmail.com