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.
Dyke, Just Do It!(Excerpt) at ICA 2022
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
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12.03.22 - Mutek, Barcelona
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25.03.22 - CTM Festival, Volksbuehne, Berlin
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08.04.22 - Rewire, Den Haag
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23.04.22 - EXPOP, Bern
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21.05.22 - la fete du slip, Lausanne
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25.05.22 - Nuits Sonores, Lyon
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06.05.22 - Heart of Noise Festival, Austria
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26.08.22 - ALTER, Aarhus
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03.11.22 - Club to Club, Turin
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04.11.22 - Mucho Flow, Guimarães
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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