Pascal Miehe is a multimedia artist currently based in Dundee. Miehe’s work concerns itself with the frustrations and freedoms of the constraints that shape our lives, often utilising the body as a point of departure. Circularity and repetition have become recurring features, thereby opening up the toolkit of pattern, the undercurrent constant in all human experience. Through the integration of repetitive elements, Miehe questions ideals of uniqueness and individuality, while also exploring the possibility of disruption.
ARENA is a moving image work, documenting the performance of a five-way tug-of-war. Miehe says of the work:
The artist - Over the past year, I have become increasingly interested in the idea that drawing can be something that happens when line and body find movement. In the five-way tug of war, the energy of the participants becomes the material, the ink in a pen, perpetually emptied out. Violent.
In crafting and splicing together a rope structure to be interacted, performed with, or ‘activated’ by a group, I seek to explore intertwined systems of power and domination. I want to work out the ways in which these systems spill over or simmer beneath our everyday living. Involving multiple bodies in this work allows me to integrate elements of multiplicity and mutuality and to wrestle with our collective societal interconnectedness.