We spent 10-14th December at Trinity Laban to unfold the next phase of development for When Pillars Evaporate. Choreographer, Zoi Dimitriou, shares a sense of what the week uncovered.
Passing of images
Intimate Structures
Objects that meet their shadow
Stories told as to not disappear
Dead and Undead
Infra ordinary
Exhausting the moment
I think it is becoming increasingly difficult to live as one wants to. Forms of disappearance happen through different avenues, in our contemporary societies often through social media and everyday myths. Communities and clusters of organisation that permit a glimpse for a possibility of disappearing are very interesting to me. How can such organisation models infiltrate some of the devising/researching models we are working with? What are the forms of everyday practices/tactics? Everything is an illusion, after all.
Image comes and slides; in recognizing it, it slips away. Negotiating the image as it happens, never grasping it, diffusing it, letting go, deconstructing, letting space in. Impressionistic; not personal, not having attachments, allowing clichés and other activities, body habits. How attention is occupied. Technicalities of attention and technologies of looking. A new tone entering a virtual reality.