Are swimming noodles anti-surveillance tools?

Combining approaches from works through the Dazzle Club and Noodles, this workshop questioned the body’s role in public space and our complex relationship with collective trust.

This was first realised through a Radycal Lab with Pedreira, Porto in 2023.

A four day performance-lab of radical acts against surveillance. Through noodle moving, dazzle walking and collective research, a group of selected artists from an open call joined Emily Roderick in a playful dissection of what it means to be in today’s surveillance culture.

Arranged over four evenings, ‘Are Swimming Noodles Anti-Surveillance Tools?’ is a series of mini-workshops where together we explored the following:

_Public noodle interventions
_Walking as an act of defiance
_Anti-surveillance makeup techniques

Off the back of the Radycal Lab, I then continued my stay at Pedreira for a month long residency, exploring further ideas around swimming noodles and developing future projects.

Orange glitchy text reads Radycal Lab, Are swimming noodles anti-surveillance tools? - de Emily Roderick Dazzle Club Founder & Pedreira. Noodles de natação como Ferramentas anti-vigilãncia?
Workshop poster for ‘Are Swimming Noodles Anti-Surveillance Tools?’ with Pedreira. Credit: Pedreira
Group of people sat on the floor of an open air market with Emily who has her face painted.
Day 1: Dazzle Walk. Credit: Rafaela Santos
Photograph close up of a group of people covered in various swimming noodles in a grassy park area.
Day 2: Noodle exploring. Credit: Rafaela Santos
A group of people covered in swimming noodles pose in a grassy landscape.
Day 2: Noodle exploring. Credit: Rafaela Santos
Two people lean over a table at multiple devices and laptops in the background are two swimming noodles.
Day 3 & 4: Researching,
resource making and presentation. Credit: Rafaela Santos

About Pedreira:
Pedreira is a collective manifesto that seeks to energize artistic creation through hybrid sessions; radical labs; sharing sessions & art residencies.

a loose and fluid experimental transfeminist art collective
we are:
hacking
creating
collaborating

Pedreira is based in Porto, Portugal.


I am always looking to develop workshops and explore new ways of creating! Get in touch if you want to work with me.