Liberty Hodes
Liberty Hodes is an artist and facilitator living and working in Newcastle, currently based at The NewBridge Project in Shieldfield. She graduated with an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths in 2021 following a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2015. Since then, she has participated in The NewBridge Project’s alternative education program, The Collective Studio. In 2022, she collaborated with another NewBridge Project studio member to establish NeighbourHood Watch, a monthly in-person screening event for video and digital moving image work, aimed at providing artists and video-makers a space to share their work outside of the context of social media.
Her practice spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on performance, video, and writing, often incorporating humour. She is interested in bringing a sense of ancientness into a contemporary context, exploring links between stone circles and modern structures like tower blocks and bollards as stone or stone-like forms. Recently, she has been reflecting on the presence of demolition and regeneration in Newcastle, seeking to explore the connections between demolition, the body, and queerness. This exploration has led to a series of performance and performance-to-camera works titled “demolition bodies,” which involve the destruction of varied scale cardboard replicas of the North East.
Also one half of A Comedy Night that Passes the Bechdel Test, one half of Soft Punk band THE SLUGS