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Echoing Movements is a performance/exercise that looks at the gap between an artist, its subjects, and its viewers, from the studio to the public domain.
According to the artist Bradley Davies, in an interview with Ellen Mueller, the work is a film that follows the artist (dressed in a hi-vis jacket) and a group of friends who take turns following one another and others passing by. Davies begins by following the walks of others, and gradually, he himself becomes the one being followed—his movements mimicked in a kind of conga line of walkers and followers.
The audio overlay consists of footsteps recorded by Davies and a friend inside the Hamilton Mausoleum, a site once known for having the longest echo in a man-made structure. The soundtrack builds to a crescendo of echoing footsteps, with each change in the person or direction being followed marked by a whistle. Toward the end, the footsteps take on the rhythm of a military march.
Overall, the film carries a sense of surveillance, as if viewed from a discreet distance—observing individuals as they move through space, tracing their paths, and studying their movements.

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