Liberty Hodes

My name is Liberty Hodes, I am an artist and facilitator living and working in Newcastle, currently based at The NewBridge Project in Shieldfield. My practice spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on performance, video and writing, often tangled up in humour.

I am interested in bringing a feeling of ancientness into a contemporary context, exploring links between stone circles and tower blocks and bollards as stone or stone-like structures. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the presence of demolition and regeneration in Newcastle, and have wanted to explore the links between demolition, the body and queerness, and have been working on a series of performance and performance-to- camera works called “demolition bodies”, which have involved the destruction of varied scale cardboard replicas of the North East. Although

I was born and live in the North-East of England, I graduated from MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths in 2021 following a BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in 2015, and have since taken part in The NewBridge Project’s alternative education programme The Collective Studio. In 2022 I worked with another NewBridge Project studio member to set up NeighbourHood Watch, a monthly in-person screening event for video and digital moving image work intended to give artists and video-makers a space to share their work outside of the context of social media.