Axiom

Axiom was created during Acts:ReActs 4 residency in at Wimbledon College of Arts, London in 2017.

In the residency Kate Lane & Joe Wild turned the gallery into a performance making machine in the final sharing of the residency.

Documentation from the final performance sharing was selected as part of the Society of British Theatre Designers exhibition 'Staging Places' at the V&A in 2019-2020

Axiom was a research project between Joe Wild and Kate Lane. The ‘Performance Machine’ explored multi-platform performance using unities of time, space, body and text to generate an alternative authorship for performance generating. It was a transformative space moulded to the body of the performer, distorting and hiding parts, while extending and framing others.

Each performance was shaped by the performers body and their relationship with the piece from the sound recorded (through a contact mic inside the costume) and then played out via speakers on the performer; the piece shaping and restricting the performers body through the rhizomatic constructed pattern. The digital laser projector live fed the performers experience and/ or the audience is invited to superimpose themselves onto the performer.

In this research we explored and experimented on deconstructing the human body, distorting the lines between the intimate and private, and narcissistic self-reflection and self-projection. It looked to question the performers body as author and played with post-dramatic aspects of time/ space/ body and media through game playing, performance and creation of objects. It involved into a series of performance and participatory games inviting the audience to interact physically either live or virtually through telematic performance.

• https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/wimbledo...
• https://stagingplaces.co.uk/designers/ka...
• https://www.katelane.co.uk/axiom