Thomasson, Edward and Beech, Lucy, 2016, Show, Exhibition or Event, Public Relations
Abstract or Description: | Developed during a month-long residency at Site Gallery, Sheffield, and later performed at Maureen Paley, London; Public Relations is a choreographed group action that looks at how movement is used when language fails or seems hard to summon. The work sees a group of performers playing movement based games in an attempt to negotiate collective feelings of social discomfort. This work continues Beech and Thomasson’s investigation into how double standards are performed and upheld collectively. A group of performers present the audience with a series of movements that systematically come together as component parts of a stage combat sequence. The group collectively performs and records a Foley soundscape, which then underscores the series of violent interactions that follow. Through the repetition of a short sequence of movements and the activation of their clothes and water bottles, the work suggests therapeutic potentials in staging violence without touching. |
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Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W190 Fine Art not elsewhere classified Creative Arts and Design > W500 Dance |
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School or Centre: | School of Arts & Humanities | ||||||||||||||||
Funders: | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation | ||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2016 10:43 | ||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2023 14:15 | ||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/1942 |
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