Grid, Body, and City (2025 - Ongoing)
Research-led series in film and spatial practice
Grid, Body, and City is an ongoing interdisciplinary project series exploring how bodily experience is shaped by the spatial and social structures of cities — and how the body, in turn, reinterprets and transforms urban space. Each chapter situates itself within a specific cities and unfolds through research archives, essay film, embodied mapping, and site-specific intervention, forming a long-term investigation into how cities choreograph bodies across time and geography.
Research archives studying the ancient urban forms of Athens as a city of the public body, and Rome as a city of the disciplined body (Sennett, 1994)Chapter I : London
Replace the Cup (ongoing)
Replace the Cup investigates London’s remaining drinking fountains as monuments of the “civilised city.” At Holborn (1859), the first public drinking fountain in Britain was built to meet the body without permission - mouth to stone, thirst to infrastructure, water offered without purchase as a democratic gesture of care. But public care was never innocent. Victorian fountains were often placed opposite pubs as part of the temperance movement, inscribed with biblical phrases promoting sobriety and the names of wealthy donors carved into stone - turning public infrastructure into moral instruction and prestige.
These fountains trained the citizen, disciplining bodies through sobriety and quiet forms of social control. Today, the cup is gone, the chain is missing, and other fountains stand fenced off or sealed. What remains is an empty monument. Yet the fountain returns in modern form in response to the plastic crisis - now stamped with corporate logos, replacing civic care with branded visibility.