Yoke Collective

Yoke Collective is the artistic and curatorial partnership between Georgina Rowlands and Emily Roderick. Yoke works with collaborative research exploring cyber-politics, examining increasingly intrusive surveillance systems, exploring how these are questioned against cyber-feminist theory, to challenge the positioning of the female body within the algorithms of facial and full body-recognition.

Yoke are also co-founders of The Dazzle Club, 2019 – 2021, a two-year project exploring surveillance in public space, and held regular Dazzle Walks in response to the use of live facial recognition police cameras in London and beyond.

Exhibitions and performances include LUVA Gallery, NOHAT PAF in Bedford and Continuum: A Performance Festival of Future Futures at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.

Two performers have screens attached to their chests. They are dressed in black, facing eachother in a dark room.
tracking_devices – a performance by Yoke Collective, shown as a video at Black Hole Club End of Year Show at Vivid Projects, Birmingham
A room full of people surround two performers dressed in suits. There is a line of screens that divide the space on the floor.

Selected Yoke Collective Projects

A garage is filled with blue light. Screens suspended on a metal track are hung in the open doorway to the garage. Each of the four screens are blue.

Blue Screen of Breath
Performance blending system crash screens and online screams

Evie stands infront of a black background. Her face is painted with bold geometric shapes.

The Dazzle Club
Two year project on surveillance in public space

Two performers are wearing phones attached to their head. They are both looking into the camera wearing yellow and orange.

Screen Time, Word in Transit 5
Performance event and zine publication

A still from a surveillance camera in Stratford Westfield.

Three Point Detection
Moving image work as part of the series Four Films of Solace

Hiding in Plain Sight
Workshop on creative DIY anti-surveillance techniques