with Luli Perez and James Taylor
Edited Collective Studio Practice Tapes, making of point I, 2017.
Edited Collective Studio Practice Tapes, making of point II, 2017.
Edited Collective Studio Practice Tapes, making of point III, 2017.
Healing Forwards is a collaborative, roaming, live art performance by a collective of artists, Adam Moore, James Taylor, and Luli Perez, working across dance, sound, and live video projection, respectively. Over the course of the performance the roles of the artist’s dissolve as they each intervene and undertake the work of making movement, sound and projected images, building three distinct, sequential immersive environments emerging from the collectives’ open-ended artistic collaboration over six months.
When the performance resolves in the third act, the artists return to their starting positions, beginning a second cycle, this time, opening out their closed circle of performance inviting audiences to join them in their collective work of artistic transformation.
Gentle offerings of inclusion from the artist’s give audiences the opportunity to collaborate and transcend traditional boundaries, altering the performance unpredictably with varying levels of complexity and invention. In accordance with their degree of agency, the ’emotions, desires and fears, lifestyles, identities and intuitive notions’, ‘visions and expectations of the future or of multiple futures’, of everyone present, change the performance, collaboratively questioning institutionalised aesthetics of dance, composition and visual art performance, and the role of artists and audiences in performance making.
How can reflexivity be witnessed, learned and enhanced in creative collaborative communities? How can we use performance to develop more artful reflexivity? How can this help to create more sustainable futures? Through collaborative transdisciplinary performance, Healing Forwards aims to nurture a collective reflexive capital observing three artists in the act of being different, where audiences can catch themselves in the ‘art of being different’ – in this work – and beyond – to create a different world.
Healing Forwards III points II cycles (2017). Performed at Laban Laurie Grove Studios.
Healing Forwards III points II cycles (2017). Performed at Laban Laurie Grove Studios.
Healing Forwards III points II cycles (2017). Performed at Laban Laurie Grove Studios.