Curious
the moment I saw you I knew I could love you
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performance: duration 45 mins; video documentation above – 47 mins
Text from the original Festival website:
This new performance and film installation by Curious – Leslie Hill and Helen Paris – made in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Kötting and composer Graeme Miller, features a cast of six performers.
the moment I saw you I knew I could love you is about instincts we feel rather than facts we know – when the body demands to be heard and tells us to fight, flee or freeze. It is about fear, impulse, love and undefended moments. Designed for life-raft sized groups of audience members at a time. Set in the belly of a whale.
Installational and filmic, the piece is an hour long, performed to sixteen audience members at a time, several times a day, over two days.
Helen Paris and Leslie Hill have been working together as Curious for the past twelve years. They make work in a range of disciplines including performance, installation, publication and film. The work is global and domestic: sometimes large, sometimes small in scale. Intimacy and a shared sense of encounter with an audience is always an important element. They called their company Curious because what drives them as artists is an intense curiosity about the world in which they live.
Commissioned by New Moves International for The National Review of Live Art 2010, Chelsea Theatre for SACRED 2009 and Colchester Arts Centre. Made with the support of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Brunel University and a residency at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Hosking Houses Trust.
the moment I saw you I knew I could love you
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Text from the original Festival website:
This new performance and film installation by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, made in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Kötting and composer Graeme Miller, features a cast of six performers.
the moment I saw you I knew I could love you is about instincts we feel rather than facts we know – when the body demands to be heard and tells us to fight, flee or freeze. It is about fear, impulse, love and undefended moments. Designed for life-raft sized groups of audience members at a time. Set in the belly of a whale.
Installational and filmic, the piece is an hour long, performed to sixteen audience members at a time, several times a day, over two days.
Helen Paris and Leslie Hill have been working together as Curious for the past twelve years. They make work in a range of disciplines including performance, installation, publication and film. The work is global and domestic: sometimes large, sometimes small in scale. Intimacy and a shared sense of encounter with an audience is always an important element. They called their company Curious because what drives them as artists is an intense curiosity about the world in which they live.
Commissioned by New Moves International for The National Review of Live Art 2010, Chelsea Theatre for SACRED 2009 and Colchester Arts Centre. Made with the support of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Brunel University and a residency at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Hosking Houses Trust.