(feat. energy flash), Live performed at Staffordshire St, London
Performance documentation at Swords&Kisses at Staffordshire St, London.
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Performance Documentation via here (feat. energy flash) references the same named track and book, with former - Energy Flash by Joey Beltram - being used as the track artist's body is dancing towards and the later - Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds - demonstrating a theoretical interest to electronic music and rave scene, to explore rave associated desires and the liminal moments of transcending one's physical forms and identities. With artist body covered in reflect strips and moves around within the crowd, (feat. energy flash) performs within full darkness with only 4 live cam's shooting minor spotlight capturing movements of body in lighting format projected to the space in real time.
My practice examines how identity is produced, performed and made legible through space, appearance and social relations. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture, sound, performance and digital media, I explore questions of being, belonging and individual agency as shaped by systems of regulation, projection and perception that often sit beyond one’s control. Informed by lived discomfort, my work moves between public space, subcultural environments, domestic interiors and speculative worlds, often unfolding through aesthetics of pressure, extremity and pain. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from BDSM, rave and club subcultures, as well as DJ mixing, I explore how established structures of power can be disrupted and reconfigured through pleasure, consent and intensity.
In 2025, Chaney was selected as an awardee of the third edition of LOEWE FOUNDATION/Studio Voltaire award. Selected exhibitions and performances include Back of House/Front of House, Piccalilli Gallery, London (2026), FAN の BLOG 迷妹の部屋, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London (2024), How to Destroy Angels (curated by Tai Shani & Anne Duffau), Horse Hospital, London (2024), Acal Festival 3 (curated by Studio/Chapple and SON OF CRAFT), Staffordshire St Gallery, London (2023), if splash has your whistle, IKLECTIK, London, (2023) and Kaugummi im Motherboard, gr_und Gallery, Berlin, (2024).