Collaboration Katie #1 and #2, 2012
Collaboration Katie #1, 2012, video
Collaboration Katie #1, 2012 was made in collaboration with dancer Katie McGreevie, and marks the first time the artist collaborated in this way. Katie was invited to develop a short sequence of movements that related to the photographs of Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey, and the award-winning dance film by Norman McLaren ‘Pas de Deux’, being aware that her figure would be overlaid and composited. As the video was shot Katie responded to the artist’s projections of how her motions might work when overlaid and composited in the final editing process. As Katie altered her movements the dance’s pace and dynamics changed yet its core motions remain the same. The overlaid images of Katie do not make evident the clear steps in her motions but combine to form a claustrophobic condensation, where her positions and movements are no longer separated and organized by time.
For Collaboration Katie #2, 2012 the artist and dancer speak about their process, the exchange of ideas and aim of the dance while Katie repeats her performance. Each new version of the dance - some slower, faster, more expansive, more contained - are shown overlaid from the beginning.
- TJ Boulting
Collaboration Katie #1, 2012, video