'Every-Thing, No-Thing’
Chloe will collaborate with artists Ruby Lestrange, Mike McCallum and Louise Tiphine.
Every-Thing, No-Thing Is an attempt at creating Temporary Autonomous Circus. Researching and devising with discarded objects, the work is a comment on the itinerance of self within a throw-away society. Working on the floor and in the air, fusing physical performance with spoken word and mark making, the aim is to create a succession of un-replicable performances following residencies in a multitude of locations. The works will be a visceral experience of trauma, of joy, of intense humanity from which to expose a lack which we see in our world.
Where do we put the stuff that doesn’t fit?
Continuing to build on physical research into The Abject and Georges Bataille’s vision of The Formless, we are interested in staging a decomposition of ‘what is’; And consequentially discovering what we can grow from this decay.
The project pivots on sourcing discarded objects on location – these objects will form the base of our research – demanding authentic discoveries, from which to create reactive and responsive performance. The final products will be entirely dependent on what we find, the solutions we discover and how the content which emerges fuses into the immediate political landscape at the time of creation. We work without a formed narrative in mind. Instead sculpting the final performances from our discoveries in the room, in real time. Working in this way necessitates the circus practice which is the backbone of our work, rather than shoehorning physicality into an existing thing.
Our aim for creating temporary autonomy through this project celebrates the finite experience of live performance and how it echoes that of life: Frothing with existence, until it is not. Whilst the final performances will not be replicated in their exact state, ‘Every-Thing, No-Thing’ will utilise mark-marking with found materials throughout each residency - using our bodies, objects and rigging to create an incandescent representation of our process and eventual products. This artwork will travel to each iteration of the project, becoming a kind of Frankenstein's Monster of expression. Marking what was, what is and allowing for the evolution of what will come.
Chloe will collaborate with artists Ruby Lestrange, Mike McCallum and Louise Tiphine.
Every-Thing, No-Thing Is an attempt at creating Temporary Autonomous Circus. Researching and devising with discarded objects, the work is a comment on the itinerance of self within a throw-away society. Working on the floor and in the air, fusing physical performance with spoken word and mark making, the aim is to create a succession of un-replicable performances following residencies in a multitude of locations. The works will be a visceral experience of trauma, of joy, of intense humanity from which to expose a lack which we see in our world.
Where do we put the stuff that doesn’t fit?
Continuing to build on physical research into The Abject and Georges Bataille’s vision of The Formless, we are interested in staging a decomposition of ‘what is’; And consequentially discovering what we can grow from this decay.
The project pivots on sourcing discarded objects on location – these objects will form the base of our research – demanding authentic discoveries, from which to create reactive and responsive performance. The final products will be entirely dependent on what we find, the solutions we discover and how the content which emerges fuses into the immediate political landscape at the time of creation. We work without a formed narrative in mind. Instead sculpting the final performances from our discoveries in the room, in real time. Working in this way necessitates the circus practice which is the backbone of our work, rather than shoehorning physicality into an existing thing.
Our aim for creating temporary autonomy through this project celebrates the finite experience of live performance and how it echoes that of life: Frothing with existence, until it is not. Whilst the final performances will not be replicated in their exact state, ‘Every-Thing, No-Thing’ will utilise mark-marking with found materials throughout each residency - using our bodies, objects and rigging to create an incandescent representation of our process and eventual products. This artwork will travel to each iteration of the project, becoming a kind of Frankenstein's Monster of expression. Marking what was, what is and allowing for the evolution of what will come.
