Phil Collins

VISUAL

Phil Collins

they shoot horses
In partnership with The Model

Sat 04 July | 3.30pm - 11.30pm

Event Details

Times & Dates:
Sat 04 July | 3.30pm - 11.30pm

Event Categories:
Visual | Music

Admission:
Free

Age Suitability:
All ages

Venue:
The Model, The Mall

Access
Fully accessible venue

Referencing the 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, which tells the story of gruelling dance competitions as a form of entertainment during the Great Depression, they shoot horses was a disco dance marathon organised by the artist Phil Collins in 2004 with a group of young people in Ramallah, Palestine, during the Second Intifada.

Filmed in real time over the course of eight hours, the dancers pass through unfolding stages of elation, joy, fatigue, exhaustion, and endurance to a soundtrack of pop, rock and dance hits from the 1960s on.

Speaking to both the hardships and the resilience of living under the decades-long illegal occupation by the state of Israel, they shoot horses centres dancing as an act of resistance in the face of daily atrocities, and as a fragile yet inextinguishable anticipation of liberation to come.

Phil Collins is an internationally renowned visual artist, filmmaker, community organiser, and educator who lives in Berlin and Wuppertal.

they shoot horses and Phil Collins solo exhibition at The Model is supported by Community Foundation Ireland

---