Max Munday

My audio-visual practice has developed from a background as an activist, community radio broadcaster and musician, and through an MA by Research to incorporate video and dance.

The MA explores the way that loss and utopianism are manifested in the Jewish body and starts from my great aunt’s experience of volunteering at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp after the War. Whilst there, she ran dance classes with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who, she said, danced with great hope not with sorrow.

Movement-based interviews, fragmenting and layering videos, and manipulating audio facilitate a dialogue between large narratives and small-scale experiences, the ‘important’ and the ‘mundane’, words and gaps, past and present.