‘Come and dance with me’

 Movement Making Marks

The video installation and prints shown are part of new work made responding to my initial research question, “How can learning and non learning disabled participants perform together in a sculpture that can be worn?”

In ‘Come and dance with me’ I invited four performers to collaborate in an improvisational way.  I chose performers who had experience in this genre as one of my recommendations from my research project was to work with professionals in the field which allowed for the research to go deeper in a faster time frame.  The participants, Carlos, Belinda, Louella and Liz worked with me one to one to develop further the ideas around my initial research question of sameness and commonality through the movement.

I was curious to investigate further the moments of cohesion and synchronicity between two people working collaboratively, to explore more deeply the areas of movement and mark making that arose from my research project.  Choosing two strands of response via performance and print I wanted to find a way of bringing these two mediums together.  Artist Amalia Flarakou recommended i look at performance print, an area of print making i had not come across.  In this area I found inspiration from artists Adelaide Damoah, Clare Thornton and Jane Fox who were all working in the genre.  It was at this moment that i realised how i could move my own print making forward by combining it with performance.

 

 

Taped down outside the door leading into the video installation ‘Come and dance with me’ i placed etching plates for viewers to scratch and tread on as they entered the space.  These etchings are the physical records of the collaborative process by means of the audience entering into the space to watch the film installation.  These are the traces of encounters my work had with the viewing public.