Weighting 2015

“Witty installation of dance and digital imagery in which a giant set of scales weighs the balance between futility and aspiration.”

- Judith Mackrell, The Guardian 2016

Weighting is a kinetic video installation formed of two video monitors on either end of a horizontal beam. The screens depict five performers who stand and wait in a Beckett-like fashion; why they are waiting is never disclosed. Every so often a performer cross from one monitor the other. Concealed motors within the mechanism synchronised to the performers’ movements tilt the beam as they cross from one monitor to the other, responding as if their bodies were physically present in the space.

Presentations

2016 Gulbenkian, Canterbury

2016 Jerwood Dance House, Ipswitch

2016 MK Gallery Milton, Keynes

2016 The Place Theatre, London

2016 The Point, Eastleigh

2015 The Emporium, Brighton

Credits

Performers: Luke Birch, Nicola Collett, Chris Copland, Andrew Downs, Annie Lok

Artistic Director: Nic Sandiland

Performance Advisor: Gary Stevens

Supported by Arts Council England, South East Dance, Brighton Digital Festival