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Linger (grind rail) is a 4000mm long steel grind rail, welded from industrial blue SRS and SHS, weathered by its creation in the metal workshop and previous performances. The artist activates the grind rail through live performance, with her body slowly draping, dripping and falling across and around the structure over an extended duration (1-3 hours). This choreography resists speed and virtuosity, instead embodying the time spent between spectacle and tricks.  

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The performance contrasts the usual sound of skateboard wheels with the silent, slow movement of her body across the linear metal surface. Through this embodied slowness, the work intervenes in hyper-masculine coded spaces, asking what it means to resist the choreography demanded by these sites. By resisting expectations of movement and success, this choreography explores what it is to remain soft and embody a queer temporality.  

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Performing durational falls down quarter-pipes and grind rails at skate parks, Linger (grind rail) interrogates how bodies occupy and negotiate space. Extending the duration of a fall, the body attempts to move out of sync with the slope’s velocity. A slow, soft body in a hard, fast space. ​​​

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Created and performed by Nicole Goode

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Performance Details

2025   2nd Aug - 5th Oct - Hatched: National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth

2024   21st - 28th Nov - Honours Gradshow, The Stables, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

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Reviews

In contrast to the usual crunch of a wooden skateboard sliding across this metal, Nicole Goode slithers silently across and around the structure. Goode’s body slowly drapes and drips around the blue metal, in opposition to its stark linearity—it’s easy to get lost in her emanating tranquillity. ... She has become a form of continuity between the two spaces: a magnet drawn toward the metallic.

Mass MEMO   Honours, Victorian College of the Arts by Rose Gersakis 

 

Hatched Dispatched 2025  by Jess van Heerden​