Statement of Intent: Gallery as gymnasium; residency as rehearsal; charged site for working out, for flexing mind & body through process-based tasks & exercises. Artists as operatives engaged in ambiguous tasks, whose visual poetics reside between séance, shiftwork & training circuit. Interlocking sculptural apparatuses create conditions for performed action, from repeated falling to acts of conversation. Performance documents operate as propositions evoking action, activating space in the live body’s absence.
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The Italic I: a figure repeatedly falls. Attempts to slow & extend the event of falling: moments of flight, lightness – endlessly grounded. Games of Resonance: two figures meet in mute dialogue; their gestural language (heightened/economic, minimal/baroque) reflects upon the desired points of tension within collaboration. Few words; instead, bells, bubbles, resonating glass. A muted palette of nude & neutral grey, heavy linen, satin folded pleats. Props create leverage for potential action/reflection: scaffolds cut diagonal lines in space against which a body dangles, tilts, arcs; wooden structures curve to support artists & audiences stretch, recline. For future residencies we proposes to newly focus on: Latency/activation: how props/workstations might be animated (publicly) through live action/performance propositions (sound/video/image); Live/mediated: blur between live/recording, proposition/document, private action made public real-time via a lens; Digital/analogue: camera as witness, as generative constraint, recursivity/feedback loops; Discursivity/dialogue: generation of content through performance/lectures and readings for publication.
