The Italic I is an artistic enquiry developed in
collaboration with Clare Thornton, for
exploring the states of potential made possible by purposefully surrendering to
the event of a repeated fall. A recent Arts Council Grant (2014 –
2016), enabled Clare and I to develop, test and stage this enquiry as a series
of exhibitions, including a solo show at Project Space Plus, Lincoln (2014) and
participate in the group exhibition The Alternative Document (2016).
We are now developing this project further as a web-work in collaboration with
Dane Watkins specifically exploring the animation of our textual lexicon for
reflecting on the arc of falling, and a practice-based journal article for a
forthcoming Special Issue (ed. Ang Bartram) of the Journal of Studies
in Theatre and Performance exploring ideas around liveness and the
lens, addressing the expanded modalities of performance and
performativity - those emergent temporalities and subjectivities - produced at
the threshold where live and lens meet.
Images: Stills from Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, The Italic I, video/performance reading