Category Archives: Research

The Importance of the Face; in terms of Emmanuel Lévinas

There is a large amount of literature based around the face and the reactions it creates for other people. Emmanuel Lévinas is one of the main writers on the topic of the face and this relates directly to our performance … Continue reading

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Music for 18 Musicians

Researching into sound was quite a challenging area as we did not want to influence  the intimacy explored in the performance. We moved away from the idea of emotive sounds and pushed towards more minimalistic textures, structures, harmonies and dissonance. … Continue reading

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Is kissing an art? – Andy Warhol’s ‘Kiss’

In response to my own one on one encounter I looked for other performances that have experimented with kissing and this mainly resulted in iconic kisses from movies and Andy Warhol’s Kiss (1963). Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara stick in my … Continue reading

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Feeling intimate with a media text?

The media is a huge social entity, affecting a mass number of people worldwide. In terms of intimacy one would consider that it can only be found through physical acts and states of mind between two people, however one would … Continue reading

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Can Telephones Be A Medium For Creating Intimacy

Thinking about ideas of performance during a workshop, I began to think of ways that would take the simplistic things we do in life that could show some form of intimacy. I had thought of the idea of having a … Continue reading

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