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Lockdown 2020 was an opportunity to work in-between the reliable edges of structure and form. Performances became elusive and hazy, and so became a state in themselves. Communication was reduced to delayed digital conversation or rushed emails in-between

Bodies In-Between

Bodies In-Between is a tool for learning more about perceptual and bodily liminalities, and how these play out in communal situations. Each of the six exercises use listening to inspect the boundaries of bodies, both in an external sense (as in, literally where your body is in relation to the environment) and internal sense with regard to aural attention. There is balance between participation and passivity—listening and hearing— such that we encourage perspectives to alter, both within and outside of the body, to see how this affects listening. There isn’t a wrong or right way to engage with these exercises: Kate and I can only suggest and invite you to think through sound as we have and, we would imagine as it certainly is for us, that these might not be easy or clear.

We led Bodies In-Between as part of amexperimental attic #6 at Dai Hall, Huddersfield. Daniel Johnson Gray made a film of its images, sounds and interview snippets.