Alone, Together 2021
Performance | Velcro; hook and loop | SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich | Photos by Guido Mencari
Alone, Together is formed by two autonomous organisms, slowly stretching and contracting their bodies as they blindly navigate space with uncertain intention. With skin shaped from large volumes of Velcro, one coloured white, another black, the two opposites act individually, leaving chance to decide a moment of meeting. Ambiguous forms immobilise, have crunchy caterpillar contractions and robotic reactions; their soft breath is fragile while their bulk hostile. Together, they tentatively probe and grotesquely engulf one another, unable to separate once connected. The piece addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown.
Performance | Velcro; hook and loop | SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich | Photos by Guido Mencari
Alone, Together is formed by two autonomous organisms, slowly stretching and contracting their bodies as they blindly navigate space with uncertain intention. With skin shaped from large volumes of Velcro, one coloured white, another black, the two opposites act individually, leaving chance to decide a moment of meeting. Ambiguous forms immobilise, have crunchy caterpillar contractions and robotic reactions; their soft breath is fragile while their bulk hostile. Together, they tentatively probe and grotesquely engulf one another, unable to separate once connected. The piece addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown.
Film by Rosie Cooper
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