#Audrey

V&A / Goldsmiths Residency

Deliverable’s

• Giving a talk at the end of your residency showing what you did / learned
• Run a workshop teaching students an aspect of what you have learned (say robotics)
• Run a couple of crit sessions with the MA/MFA students or possibly run a session on exhibition dos and dont’s from last year’s experience.
• A final piece of tech you’ve developed, which will go on display in the V&A (and perhaps also here - TBC).
• An online tutorial that could be used for teaching in the years to come… that’s your legacy. If you made robots… then a step-by-step tutorial hosted on gitlab perhaps (TBC) showing how to make these DIY robots you made.

Creative Process

Proposal

I want to use these three months to further my practical research into non-human dancers. Working with abstract robotic forms I will explore how to create agency for non-human dancers in a live performance space. I will explore different methods of sensing other bodies in the space and different types of mechanical motion. Questions I am interested in:

• Does the non-human dancer need to use motion data or can the data be collected in some other way?
• How far can our perception of agency be stretched. Does more abstraction equal less agency?
• How important are other elements of a performance (music, setting, lighting etc..) in the quest for perforative agency for non-human performers?

This work will become the second piece in a currently untitled series of research into the non-human dancers agency in the performance space. The first in the series being ‘Dancers In White, Standing’.