In Gillian Wearing's 1994 artwork Dancing in Peckham, she took to a south London shopping centre and danced as if no one was watching, exploring her longstanding interest in confessional video works. Previously that year, Wearing had posted an advertisement in Time Out magazine encouraging the public to bare all to her on film (the result was her 35-minute film Confess All On Video. Don't Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian); she later performed her own creative confession in dance form in Peckham. To mark the opening of her Whitechapel Gallery retrospective, Wearing will be taking over guardian.co.uk/art. Here, she kicks off a week-long digital collaboration by sharing the playlist she listened to in preparation for her Peckham dance-athon (she then remembered it for the 25-minute duration). Watch video clips from her inhibition-suppressing soundtrack below, or go to the Spotify playlist here.
After you've listened and watched, we'd like you to get confessional with us. Where would you dance in public, and what would your soundtrack be?
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Jamming
Queen – Don't Stop Me Now
Status Quo – Rockin' All Over the World
808 State - Pacific State
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Third World - Now that We Found Love
Bee Gees – Night Fever