Yoke Collective

Yoke Collective is the artistic and curatorial partnership between Georgina Rowlands and Emily Roderick. Yoke work 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.

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. 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.

Yoke Collective is on hiatus but Emily and Georgina continue to research and develop new works around the topics. Please get in touch if you have an opportunity you’d like to discuss.

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

Two women hold up mirrors whilst applying face paint.

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

Emily and Georgina stand side by side facing the camera in front of a green backdrop. Their faces are painted with blue, black and white facepaint. They wear black clothes.

How to hide from machines
Performance to video with creative coding and interaction

Two performers with a line of screens along the floor.

Doubled Deskercise
Performance playing with what it means to ‘buffer’ and move your body in an office

Two performers have screens attached to their chests. They are dressed in black, facing eachother in a dark room.

tracking_devices
Performance of ‘webcam tag’, tracking each other whilst remaining connected

Emily and G smile at each other wearing scrap material attached to their clothes.

DDD at Tate Exchange
Workshop designing costumes to confuse surveillance algorithms

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