NESH COLLECTIVE is the international artistic partnership of musician Luke Taylor and multimedia artist Florence Gill. 2024 marks the fifth year of their collaborations, with projects splaying across the mediums of theatre, animation, video, and music.
Nesh was a word thrown around a lot in Flo’s childhood.
put an extra layer on
weren’t you ready for this?
you’re nesh
Indeed, the word means to be unusually susceptible to the cold - it’s often a word used by older generations, trying to communicate a lack of preparedness for the situation you’ve found yourself in. But to Luke and Flo, nesh represents a certain unpreparedness for life in general, for a life in a world that has been devastated by past generations.
How could you be prepared for something so unpredictable? That’s what their art is about - reacting to the world they live in, whether they’re ready for it or not.