formed view, 2010
Formed View investigates politics of perception of the moving figure through different kinds of improvisation. It is a collaborative research piece in which the body operates as a performance site and an object of observation, a piece looking into how the body gives us signs that we both can and cannot read, how the moving body can operate in registers defying expectations.
Anthropologists, dance practitioners, photographers, sound artists, visual artists, and writers are invited to respond from inside the installation. Their responses are fed to television screens so that spectators outside of the space but within the gallery can witness the research process. In doing so, the work asks “what is the role of the dancer as he/she is being watched? What is the role that the physical appearance of the dancer plays in the situation? What role does the mode of presentation play in the perception of the moving figure? How does improvisation affect or not the relation between the performer and the spectator?”.
Performer: Lyle Wheeler
Previous Research responders: Charlie Ashwell, James Haswell D’Arcy, Anne Fittall, Ade Franks, Alexandrina Helmsley, Jamila Johnson-Smalls, Sally Mckay, Dorota Mulczynska