Monday 16 June - Friday 20 June
A wall stands stark and cold, reflective of a building where nature’s inspiration is blocked out. A crack appears. A celebration of reclamation, regrowth, a reawakening and lines between all life forms are erased.
This project is about nature’s reclamation and rewilding of the self as well as spaces. In a desire to strip everything back. Suzi will work with basic materials and the materiality of the body – inspired by the truest, early forms of butoh dance. The body as transformation. A fragile force of connection. Malleable – moving as clay, earth, dirt and stone to create a living installation.
Collaborators
Alex Auld-Smith – Musician and filmmaker
Alison Brown – Costume designer and maker
Tracey Wedderburn – Digital visual artist
Suzi Cunningham
Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to its unique environment, enriched with her sense of design and musical composition. Suzi explores relationships with all life forms as well as manufactured materials, making embodied connections in a way that borders transformation. She has toured across Scotland and Europe, with her solo work Eidos and Rules To Live By and clown dancing duo Buff and Sheen. She is a performer and co-creator of Nomoss and MoonSlide who make inter-generational inclusive and accessible, site specific work and movement collaborator in Oceanallover who specialise in interdisciplinary outdoor performance.