Three men hula

Sigalit Landau’s single-channel video piece 'Three men hula' was filmed in Chisenhale Gallery in 1999 and features three actors, men who have known each other since childhood, standing in an empty room. Positioned with their backs to eachother, arms entwined, they move in unison as they attempt to revolve a large hula hoop, three metres in diameter, in a counter clockwise direction around their bodies. Landau describes the work as: ‘Three young men trying to act as one - a corporation, a unit made of three, trapped in speed. In a centrifugal pull, they dance inside a closed world, centralized but shifting, a centre with dynamic gravities, a playful, sensual, quasi-achievable task.’