SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO
nobody’s word,
HD Video, 13mins, 2025
Sound: Camara Taylor and nel tessier-lavigne
Additional Sound: Francis Dosoo and 皚桐aí tung
Captions and Sound Description - Collective Text 2024, Camara Taylor, Emilia Beatriz & Ciaran Stewart, BSL Consultation: Klarissa Webster
HD Video, 13mins, 2025
Sound: Camara Taylor and nel tessier-lavigne
Additional Sound: Francis Dosoo and 皚桐aí tung
Captions and Sound Description - Collective Text 2024, Camara Taylor, Emilia Beatriz & Ciaran Stewart, BSL Consultation: Klarissa Webster
Commissioned by Dundee Contemporary Arts with support from The Ampersand Foundation
Winner of a Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2025
Winner of a Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2025
A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod “to import 4000 Africans into New Spain.” The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.
1695, 2022 4.25am, 29mins 16secs 4K (looped), 2022
Marine Esplanade, nestled between the Port of Leith and Seafield Waste Water Sewage Works.
IMG_5917
HD Video, 10mins, 2021
Commissioned for GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW, the 2021 edition of Glasgow’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival co-programmed by Tako Taal and Adam Benmakhlouf.
In the work, flat planes of grey, green and purple convolute an encounter with a collapsed tree on a long walk; the device weights conversation in a misremembered image.
retreat is a collaborative endeavour between Majali and Taylor that grabs, evades and inhabits slippages. Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held. The work also stems from frustration, fatigue and cognitive dissonances: a desire to retreat from particular ways of working, being, making publics.
holus-bolus
HD Video, 7min39secs, 2021
rehearsed by Nima Séne;
narrated by Shola von Reinhold;
figured by Camara Taylor & Sulaïman Majali;
with sound by: 皚桐
HD Video, 7min39secs, 2021
rehearsed by Nima Séne;
narrated by Shola von Reinhold;
figured by Camara Taylor & Sulaïman Majali;
with sound by: 皚桐
Commissioned as part of What happens to desire... cur. Tako Taal as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2021.
Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund and EventScotland. Our Commissions Programme is kindly supported by the Patrons of EAF Commissioning Circle.
Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund and EventScotland. Our Commissions Programme is kindly supported by the Patrons of EAF Commissioning Circle.
installation view, When Bodies Whisper, TimeSpan, Helmsdale, 2022
holus-bolus, is inspired by the tellings and re-tellings of the life and death of William Davidson (1781 – 1820). Conspirator, radical or wrongfully convicted, Davidson was the son of a Scotsman, the Attorney General of Jamaica, and a black woman. He studied mathematics at Aberdeen University and later became a cabinet maker. In 1820, Davidson delivered an ‘eloquent and unsuccessful’ speech to court during the trial for his alleged involvement in the Cato Street Conspiracy (a radical plot to assassinate cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister). Throughout the trial, Davidson maintained his innocence, claiming he’d been mistaken for another man of colour in the area at the time.
holus-bolus-meaning all at once-is located in the days preceding a public performance, as cast and crew move through court transcripts, rumour, and regency era ephemera in their attempt to understand, and rehearse Davidson’s final speech.
holus-bolus-meaning all at once-is located in the days preceding a public performance, as cast and crew move through court transcripts, rumour, and regency era ephemera in their attempt to understand, and rehearse Davidson’s final speech.
suspiration!
2K video, 23m 43sec, 2021
Camara and Edit: Camara Taylor
Sound Design: 皚桐 & Camara Taylor; Post-Production (Sound) Francis Dosoo
2K video, 23m 43sec, 2021
Camara and Edit: Camara Taylor
Sound Design: 皚桐 & Camara Taylor; Post-Production (Sound) Francis Dosoo
Developed with support from Market Gallery, Glasgow as a recipient of a Studio Projects Residency 2020.
Comissioned by Calum Bayne & The Newbridge Project, Gateshead.
Winner of a Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2021
Comissioned by Calum Bayne & The Newbridge Project, Gateshead.
Winner of a Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award 2021
Suspiration, [noun]—a long deep breath or a sigh. The film is a collage of images, newsreels, bodily gestures, texts and sounds collected over four years. The structure and the score of the film are comprised of the body’s audible release of liquid and air; enmeshed utterances and ir/regular vibrations. Within the film a politician meets the echo of urine running down a bowl; a crowd is hushed; a grandmother questions a popular line; a poet testifies and a body contorts itself in pursuit of escape. suspiration is a counter/intuitive mixing of feelings as/towards facts, an experiment in the sounding out of depressive modes, breathless atmospheres and desire(s) as felt through despair, loss, and so love.
installation view,
slow breath, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, 2021, Photo: Matt Pickering
slow breath, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, 2021, Photo: Matt Pickering