Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His moving image work blends performance, self-recorded documentation, internet and archival footage in order to explore and make visible queer lived experiences. Experimental techniques are often incorporated throughout his work such as the triple baked method, an original image making technique using a video synthesizer.

Sweatmother seeks to create art for his community to share, learn from and find solace in sensitive depictions of their shared raw realities and obscured histories. He continues to develop his visual art practice alongside his collaborations and lived experiences, proposing new ways the world can interact with otherness.

Sweat is the founder of Otherness Archive, a digital archive documenting queer films and its pioneers.

SWEATMOTHER CV

AWARDS / COMMISSIONS

2023 Untitled, 1st Prize Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine -Westphalia, Official Competition Oberhausen's 69th Film Festival, Germany

2021 Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Selected Fellow (FLAMIN) 2021-2022

2021 ‘k-punk 2021: post-capitalist desire’ Exhibition - Sweatmother with Multiple Sound Artists: a series of events celebrating the life and work of Mark Fisher, ICA London UK

2019 Finding Found Footage, Master Class Panelist Filmmaker, 16th London Short Film Festival, London UK

2019 Other Voices Film Commision, New Creatives Scheme, in partnership with BBC, ICA and DAZED, London

2019 Artist Commision,16th London Short Film Festival National Trailer, London UK

2018 Top 10 Moving Image Artist, Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial, Brighton UK

PERFORMANCE

2023 They'll Remember Me by My Teeth - Live AV Performance, Volkstheater Wien, Vienna

Commissioned by: DISHES

2022 Dyke, Just Do It Excerpt - Live AV and Movement Based Performance, ICA London UK

Movement Direction: Eve Stainton

Featuring performers: Stav Bee, Male Doll, Jetsun Lama, Yasmine Akim, An(Dre)a, Spisto, April Lin 林森, Fleur Bloemsma, Mother Nancy, Guia

Commissioned by: INFERNO for FLAMIN Development Fellowship

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2023 Untitled, Official Competition - 69th International Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany

2022 Untitled, Official Selection - Aesthetica Film Festival Moving Image Artist, York UK

2022 Femme Cowboy, Open School East with Jack Halberstam, Margate UK

2021 Femme Cowboy, Jeune Création 71, Fondation Fiminco, Paris Fr

2021 Other Voices, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis USA

2021 Other Voices, Barnes Film Festival, London UK

2021 Other Voices, Reelout Queer Film & Video Festival, Ontario Canada

2021 Other Voices, 18th London Short Film Festival, London UK

2020 Other Voices, Fringe! Queer and Arts Program: I Know Places, London UK

2020 Other Voices, Audience Choice Award, Flip the Script Festival Minneapolis, USA

2020 Other Voices, CINEMQ Underground Film Festival, Shanghai, China

2019 Truss Me, Avant Garde Film & Video Artists Respond to the Trauma of the 21st Century, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam

2017 Truss Me, China Libre, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Other Voices, LGBTQIA+ Histories of East London, Bermondsey Project Space, London

2020 Other Voices ft. expanded cinema performance, Asher Fynn - BBC New Creatives Showcase, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK

2020 Forms of Control, Inferno Takeover in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK

2019 All This Scratch is Making Me Itch - Found Footage Films of the 80s with Contemporary Found Footage Artists, 16th London Short Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK

2019 Soft Exits, Brighton Photo Fringe Biennial, ONCA Gallery, Brighton UK

2018 Screenbodies, FemBot: Videos About Technology, Made by Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers, The Hand Gallery, New York USA

CURATORIAL/ PROGRAMMING

2023 Trans Masc Erotics Through the Cam Hole, Film Programm, Catus Club, Milwakee USA

2022 Transmasculine Desire Moving Image Exhibit, Otherness Archive, Group Exhibition Show, Ugly Duck London UK

2022 The Forgotten Archives of the Trans Masc Experience, Film Programm, 19th London Short Film Festival, Genesis Theater

2021 Otherness Archive, Trans Histories, moving image work, Iron Works, Brighton UK

2020 Otherness Archive, a selection of work from QTIPOC films and filmmakers, Various Locations

2018 Otherness Showcase, a selection of work from Women and Non-binary filmmakers, The Ken, San Diego CA

ARTIST COLLABORATIONS

2022 ‘Passing Gloves’ Exhibition and Published Book, Artist: Orion Isaacs Commissioned by: Arts Council UK, Rich Mix

Role: Visual Director / Photographer

2022 ‘im hole’ visual tour - Artist: aya (Aya Sinclair), Commissioned by: HYPERDUB/ Various Countries

Role: Visual Artist

12.03.22 - Mutek, Barcelona
25.03.22 - CTM Festival, Volksbuehne, Berlin
08.04.22 - Rewire, Den Haag
23.04.22 - EXPOP, Bern
21.05.22 - la fete du slip, Lausanne
25.05.22 - Nuits Sonores, Lyon
06.05.22 - Heart of Noise Festival, Austria
26.08.22 - ALTER, Aarhus
03.11.22 - Club to Club, Turin
04.11.22 - Mucho Flow, Guimarães
07.10.22 - Indigo, Ljubljana

2021 ‘It's Always You’ Moving Image Work and Exhibition

Artist: Sin Wai Kin, Commissioned by: Blind Spot Gallery and Shedale

Role: Videography/ Photographer

COLLECTIVE WORK

Present Otherness Archive - Founder, Pioneers of the Other Perspective, International & Online

Present London Trans+ Pride, Co-Organiser - championing trans+ and intersex rights, London UK

Dyke, Just Do It!(Excerpt) at ICA 2022