Unearthed (2015), performed at London Topophobia 12, Performers: Adam Moore and Roberto Nicchitta. Hackney Oval. Camera: Jamie Hamilton.
Exploring the somatic, aural, and performative potential of sculpture, this work was first performed at London Topophobia titled Phyllida, Florence, Rob, Bob and Trisha — after the artists whose work and practices inspired this experimental, sensorial enquiry — Phyllida Barlow (sculpture), Florence Peake (dance), Robert Smithson (land art), Robert Morris (process art), and Trisha Brown (choreography). Developing conceptually over a number of years the work was renamed, describing the nature of the practice led and process oriented collaborative performance installation.
Frustrated by mythical representations of Land Art – implying distant regions, displacement, and irreconcilable inaccessibility – fragments of London’s topology are relocated and reconfigured. Resisting the deliberate shaping of their materials into predetermined forms, Moore and Nicchitta explore the nature of this site as an extension of London’s perpetual urban development, approaching its edges and minutia sensorially using embodied and sonorous improvisational structures. Durational and intermittent movement, sound and sculptural forms settle and morph in a modulating psychogeographic plane. Resisting monumentality, cyclical and interrelated abstracted geospatial compositions establish themselves and unfold then dissolve and collapse over time in transit through space.
Unearthed (2015), performed at London Topophobia 12, Hackney Oval, London. Performers: Adam Moore and Roberto Nicchitta. Photo: Dimitri Djuric.
Unearthed (2015), performed at London Topophobia 12, Hackney Oval, London. Performers: Adam Moore and Roberto Nicchitta. Photo: Dimitri Djuric.
Unearthed (2015), performed at London Topophobia 12, Hackney Oval, London. Performers: Adam Moore and Roberto Nicchitta. Photo: Dimitri Djuric.
Unearthed (2015), performed at London Topophobia 12, Hackney Oval, London. Performers: Adam Moore and Roberto Nicchitta. Photo: Dimitri Djuric.
Special thanks to
Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome Jamie Hamilton Dimitri Djuric
