Alone, Together 2018
Velcro; hook and loop | Performance (duration variable) | Bloomsbury Theatre, London
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 provoking uncomfortable laughter; once connected, they are unable to separate. Resonating with ancient Chinese philosophy of yin and yang, the piece addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown. Space and form is experienced from the perspective of being inside and outside as the texture of contrary colours opens common dualistic thought across a complex surface of rock facets and scrunched paper shades.
Velcro; hook and loop | Performance (duration variable) | Bloomsbury Theatre, London
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 provoking uncomfortable laughter; once connected, they are unable to separate. Resonating with ancient Chinese philosophy of yin and yang, the piece addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown. Space and form is experienced from the perspective of being inside and outside as the texture of contrary colours opens common dualistic thought across a complex surface of rock facets and scrunched paper shades.