ON
WAYS TO DISAPPEAR
2011
On Ways To Disappear looks into the use of optical instruments as portals into new ‘realities’ that intertwine with the fiction of everyday life.
These site-responsive, performative screen-based works, installed in windows, doors and other architectural gateways, re-imagine and re-choreograph ‘what lies behind’. Viewers are invited to position themselves at the centre of situations that are seemingly at arms’ reach yet out of their control.
Non-existent personages from a present future accompany you, while binaural sound recordings reinvent the soundtrack of everything, perhaps even your own voice.
Site-specific versions:
... Without Leaving A Trace
A telescope set high above the streets of Manchester lures the audience to pry into an unfolding cinematic drama, with the city as stage and you as central character.
Future Everything 2011, Manchester
Site: Piccadilly Place (brand new, extensive, white, clinical, shiny-floored office building in central Manchester).
I Came By Myself To A (Very) Crowded Place
Starting in the room behind the door and moving further and further away from you, this jigsaw story of longing invites you to become one of its pieces by never being quite there, always one moment too early or one moment too late.
Brighton Festival 2011, Brighton
Site: Meeting room at the Thistle Hotel, with a view over Brighton seafront promenade.
*
With Chloe Ducharne.
Project developed on a residency at Battersea Arts Centre, Blast Theory studios, The Basement and The Nightingale.
With the support of Arts Council England, South East Dance and Nottdance11.
*
• 4, 10 & 11 Feb | scratch events at Battersea Arts Centre | London
• 27 Feb 2011 | work-in-progress at Nottdance | Nottingham
• 11-14 May | Future Everything | Manchester
• 21-22 May | Brighton Festival | Brighton - SOLD OUT
• 22-27 August | BAC at Summerhall - development Work In Progress Show | Edinburgh
[*See The Door Project >>]
2011
On Ways To Disappear looks into the use of optical instruments as portals into new ‘realities’ that intertwine with the fiction of everyday life.
These site-responsive, performative screen-based works, installed in windows, doors and other architectural gateways, re-imagine and re-choreograph ‘what lies behind’. Viewers are invited to position themselves at the centre of situations that are seemingly at arms’ reach yet out of their control.
Non-existent personages from a present future accompany you, while binaural sound recordings reinvent the soundtrack of everything, perhaps even your own voice.
Site-specific versions:
... Without Leaving A Trace
A telescope set high above the streets of Manchester lures the audience to pry into an unfolding cinematic drama, with the city as stage and you as central character.
Future Everything 2011, Manchester
Site: Piccadilly Place (brand new, extensive, white, clinical, shiny-floored office building in central Manchester).
I Came By Myself To A (Very) Crowded Place
Starting in the room behind the door and moving further and further away from you, this jigsaw story of longing invites you to become one of its pieces by never being quite there, always one moment too early or one moment too late.
Brighton Festival 2011, Brighton
Site: Meeting room at the Thistle Hotel, with a view over Brighton seafront promenade.
*
With Chloe Ducharne.
Project developed on a residency at Battersea Arts Centre, Blast Theory studios, The Basement and The Nightingale.
With the support of Arts Council England, South East Dance and Nottdance11.
*
• 4, 10 & 11 Feb | scratch events at Battersea Arts Centre | London
• 27 Feb 2011 | work-in-progress at Nottdance | Nottingham
• 11-14 May | Future Everything | Manchester
• 21-22 May | Brighton Festival | Brighton - SOLD OUT
• 22-27 August | BAC at Summerhall - development Work In Progress Show | Edinburgh
[*See The Door Project >>]
2010 • Me and the Machine | Website designed by Parachutes and Puzzles | Associated artists of The Basement
