Folding of Attention (proposed residency on Davaar) (currently seeking funding).
This proposed body of work (conceived as a residency on the Scottish tidal island of Davaar) moves Cocker and Thornton’s enquiry from the studio (as gymnasium) into a littoral landscape, a unique location of whose geographical and visual attributes have been specifically identified as reinforcing the poetic vocabulary of the work around thresholds of understanding, the interior and exterior landscapes within collaborative practice. The Scottish tidal island Davaar (known for its caves) is approached as a live site for further investigating and experimenting with states of separation/connection; interiority/exteriority; spatial immersion/openings, and the figure of the bubble/pocket.
The cave/island motif will be pressured through a series of live performances; actions performed at specific geographical locations on Davaar including at cave mouths, coastline and the causeway between the mainland and the island. Performances will develop the ritualized vocabulary of heightened gesture that Cocker and Thornton initiated during a workshop at Summer Lodge, 2012 — using glass bells, bubbles, and resonating objects for producing sound — for reflecting on the conditions of doubling; mirroring and echo; harmony and dissonance operative within collaboration. As part of this proposed site-specific residency, Cocker and Thornton intend to develop a new series of actions choreographed around a bespoke, designed ‘tipping table’, a furniture piece with tilting oval mirror embedded in the table top.
This proposed body of work (conceived as a residency on the Scottish tidal island of Davaar) moves Cocker and Thornton’s enquiry from the studio (as gymnasium) into a littoral landscape, a unique location of whose geographical and visual attributes have been specifically identified as reinforcing the poetic vocabulary of the work around thresholds of understanding, the interior and exterior landscapes within collaborative practice. The Scottish tidal island Davaar (known for its caves) is approached as a live site for further investigating and experimenting with states of separation/connection; interiority/exteriority; spatial immersion/openings, and the figure of the bubble/pocket.
The cave/island motif will be pressured through a series of live performances; actions performed at specific geographical locations on Davaar including at cave mouths, coastline and the causeway between the mainland and the island. Performances will develop the ritualized vocabulary of heightened gesture that Cocker and Thornton initiated during a workshop at Summer Lodge, 2012 — using glass bells, bubbles, and resonating objects for producing sound — for reflecting on the conditions of doubling; mirroring and echo; harmony and dissonance operative within collaboration. As part of this proposed site-specific residency, Cocker and Thornton intend to develop a new series of actions choreographed around a bespoke, designed ‘tipping table’, a furniture piece with tilting oval mirror embedded in the table top.
