Around the Wicket

Around the Wicket - Audio visual piece, 2023. Shown at Elsewhere’s Exchange exhibition on 28/04/23. Sound and visuals by Sam  Shepherd, a multidisciplinary artist studying at Central Saint Martins. @voremipsum

‘Around The Wicket is a cricket term used when a left or right handed bowler plays on the side of the wicket where the bowling arm is further from the stumps, defining the idea of a queer bowler within the masculine sport. This piece expresses my experience pissing myself into a cricket protection cup during a match at the age of 10.  Re-contextualised through José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of using Queer as a verb. Turning masculine childhood trauma into a friend as an attempt to digest it.’