Back in November this was an invitation to take part in a collective act of solidarity… Over the duration of COP26(1-12 November 2021)we invite you to spend some time with a tree or stand of trees close to where you live; to stand by, to eat your lunch with, to listen to or to lie beneath. Plant life is a crucial part of our shared cosmology, trees continue to be threatened, felled, diseased by the effects Read More
‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.’ Virginia Woolf. January 18th. 1915. Turn towards the darkness As dusk arrives Turn off the lights, place a lighted candle in the window walk into the nighttime eventually, when the darkness has absorbed you, and you it, turn, walk back towards the candle light when you arrive, blow out the candle, move in the darkness- feel its Read More
The Re-pair videos are now available on youtube, 3 short films with dance artists Amaara Raheem and Joanna Young, Simon Ellis and Saffy Setohy, Jennifer Monson and Neil Callaghan. Made during lockdown in March and April 2021 the films provide a window into the dancers lives and their attempts to perform touch together in all the awkwardness, beauty and sadness of the times.
Re-pair As a way of experimenting with how dance can re-pair itself, this project asks 6 dancers from different parts of the world to pair with each other in order to re-think the analogue in the digital. Each dancer will be sent a score, emerging from the stitched gloves that I am making for the soft matter project (http://simonwhitehead.net/2020/05/07/soft-matter-process/) and asked to improvise with the objects that they will then share with the dancer they are paired with. Read More
Newground is a physical project that invites ongoing encounter between humans, plants and the ground itself. A new commons; the ground as a shared medium, a place in which to explore the emergence of movement, play and touch with others, elements, plants and materials. Newground is a prepared medium in which the proposal is to explore ways to land and be together. Early on, artist Jacques Nimki was invited to collaborate on this project, to research Read More
how long have I done this?