Every Ocean Hughes

Every Ocean Hughes's work encompasses art-making, choreography, curating, writing, and organizing. Sense and Sense is part of their ongoing exploration of how political movements are represented, which hinges on a broad understanding of choreography as organized movement. Hughes is interested in "the way an idea of 'free movement' and people demonstrating comes to be represented by an abstraction and in turn comes to represent the idea of the city." For this piece, she collaborated with the performance artist MPA, whose work examines the social and political implications of the body in space.

MPA lays on their side and mimics walking, their body pressed to the ground, through Stockholm's buzzing central square, Sergels Torg, a historical site of countless political demonstrations. Their physical struggle to move in a manner that appears easy and uninhibited recalls the utopian ideals embedded in the site, which was planned to accommodate political protests. In this way, Sense and Sense prompts passersby to compare their everyday movement in the iconic square to the history of political movements galvanized there since its construction in 1967.