About The Work
This print was created alongside UR Feeling , a 2015 film where British artist Simon Martin collaborates with performers for the first time. The film considers how people feel in response to the inherent architectural codes of the built environment and how the social history of a place can produce particular affects. Moving away from an explanatory or analytical mode of address, the film is wordless and does not set out to convey meaning through representation, but to illuminate experience through the senses. The performers respond to a number of scenarios which were proposed as image-based exercises, visual “clues,” forming the basis of a choreography. These images are derived from ideas about the body in relationship to situation, apprehension of context, buildings, or objects. They are named: Site 01, Site 02, River, Portrait, and Corner. Working with artist and Butoh-trained dancer Nissa Nishikawa and Martin Tomlinson, these commands are actualised in improvisatory performances in which their bodies are moved by images in the mind’s eye, taking their cue from imagined environments and the reciprocal landscapes of affects and sensations they evoke.
Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
About Simon Martin
Photograph
Hahnemule fine art pigment print
12.60 x 16.54 in
32.0 x 42.0 cm
This work is signed and numbered.
About The Work
This print was created alongside UR Feeling , a 2015 film where British artist Simon Martin collaborates with performers for the first time. The film considers how people feel in response to the inherent architectural codes of the built environment and how the social history of a place can produce particular affects. Moving away from an explanatory or analytical mode of address, the film is wordless and does not set out to convey meaning through representation, but to illuminate experience through the senses. The performers respond to a number of scenarios which were proposed as image-based exercises, visual “clues,” forming the basis of a choreography. These images are derived from ideas about the body in relationship to situation, apprehension of context, buildings, or objects. They are named: Site 01, Site 02, River, Portrait, and Corner. Working with artist and Butoh-trained dancer Nissa Nishikawa and Martin Tomlinson, these commands are actualised in improvisatory performances in which their bodies are moved by images in the mind’s eye, taking their cue from imagined environments and the reciprocal landscapes of affects and sensations they evoke.
Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
About Simon Martin
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- The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The image size is 27 x 41 cm.
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