The Body-as-Data Project

These spaces hold within them both a sense of constantly shifting ephemerality, and strictly performed permanence for the lives recorded at their borders… but these are people on the move.

The Body as Data (2024) - Digital and geographic recalibrations of bodies, of lives, drawing their own mobilised version of the border. Re-mapping the Kent Coast, it follows a group of people who have experienced forced displacement as they navigate borders and uncover erased stories. It is an evocative collage of hidden histories.

The 2024 Body as Data Project aimed to connect local communities and those who have experienced forced migration through creative dance practice, walking, and surveillance technologies to come together to mobilise the border of the Kent coast from Margate to Folkestone. Over the summer, a series of community workshops and site-specific walking events took place which explored how the ‘body-as-data’ can draw its own border by re-imagining the impact of drone technology and the power of walking practices. This project was then turned into a film which screened across coastal Kent.

In each of these workshops, our task for the artist team was to choreograph a space for the participants to share and create together, whilst also constructing in that moment something which would carve through the landscape of the Kent border, something which would act as evidence, an alternative border, for the machinic eyes of the drone.

Director - Sidonie Carey-Green

Lead Artist – Tom Tegento
Producer – Jodie Cole
Sound – Andre Braga-Verissimo
Camera – Mijo Peraica
Drone – Tommy Stewart

Artists - Josephine Carter, Surya Chandra, Nadia Mirza, Falle Nioke, 

Olha Smolyk, Farida Yesmin

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Partners: Counterpoints Arts, ARK Cliftonville, Napier Drop In, Kent Downs Geopark / Salt & Earth Festival, Samphire Project, Crate Space.

Previous Projects:

Uninvited (2021)

Contagion (2022)​

Concept & Direction: Sidonie Carey-Green

Lead Artist: Tom Tegento

App Developer: Liam Hawks

Supported by The Turner Contemporary Gallery Margate and Counterpoints Arts