Spring 2026 Residencies: MV Brown
In January 2026, we welcomed MV Brown as the first resident of our Spring 2026 Studio Somewhere programme. The residency took place at Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow.
MV used the residency to develop Body Proxy, pushing their my digital performance research further. They shared some documentation with us:
“I used the residency in the TMS Studio to push my digital performance research further, developing movement and gesture scores. Working with a Kinect sensor and TouchDesigner, I deliberately limited the technical setup in order to foreground points of “glitch” in the translation between code and choreography. These moments of slip and rupture became performative strategies for undermining binary ways of reading the body. This research will directly feed into work with my avatar, MV Beta, where these scores will be developed further through motion capture.”
About the artist
MV Brown’s practice uses the human body and new technologies to explore tensions across embodied subjectivity, the body as spectacle and socio-techno constructs of gender. Drawing on cyberfeminist, glitch-feminist, and posthumanist approaches, they investigate avatars, prototypes, ‘false-self’hoods, and the fallacy of the ‘IRL.’ Their practice builds upon questions around the (non) performance of identity in a post-internet context. Their works are realised as CGI, performance, and sculpture. Brown has an MLitt in Fine Art Practice from Glasgow School of Art, and an MA in Film & Television Studies and English Literature from the University of Glasgow. Previous exhibitions include Jerwood Survey III (UK touring group show), French Street Gallery, Glasgow; Glasgow International; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Celine Gallery, Glasgow; Maleki House, London; Grace Exhibition Space, NYC; and Venice International Performance Art Week. Residencies include Studio Somewhere, Tramway, Glasgow; Cove Park, Argyll & Bute; and the Art/Life Institute, New York.
Photo by Izzy Leach