Breathing Space
Burgoyne, Greig (2016) Breathing Space. [Drawing, Performance, Site-specific work]
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A commission based on the text by Deleuze ‘islands’. Exploring space and body/site relations, this project in collaboration with the Brussels-based dance company La Verita, resulted in site specific wall drawings, installation and a live dance performance.
A collaboration with La Verita Dance Company Brussels, this project was part of BreathingSpace - a site specific commission for La Barcarolle Centre Culturel Balavoine in Arques (62) France from September to December 2016. The project explored Deleuze's idea of 'islands'. A late work of Deleuze, he spoke of islands that are formed by splitting and fragmenting from a greater site, and those islands formed from within, growing from within, akin to surfacing.
The wall drawings in measuring and relocating space, sought to extend ideas of autonomous space and its heterogenous dynamics within the generic and regulated public spaces. Whilst the drawings in their measuring and calculating of walked space /uniting body and site, the very logic and rules of obtaining this information and utilising it to realise the drawings, led to anomalies. Instead of emphasising that united public space, it intensified a fragmenting and removal from it. The performance sought to physically manifest that parallel space with its anomalies and speculate its experience. In doings so take location beyond one of stasis, toward of flux and transition.
The wall drawings with there optically shifting sense of imploded space meet the expansive gestures of the body, seen together a space akin to breathing may be the outcome, where we are simultaneously moving in and out of space -one we travel that splits and ripples with in front of our eyes and another that meets us as it grows.
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