In a three-year-long artistic collaboration, we will look into new forms of social practice that engage with an expanded notion of consent. Through a range of mostly (but not only) duet activities, we will navigate between improvisation and scores, attunement and disharmony, resonance and difference. We are interested in the many negotiations and power dynamics that happen between bodies in relation to one another, whether at conscious or unconscious levels. By examining how the two of us can live/work together, we hope to generate scores, exercises, choreographies, writing and recordings that engage with questions around intimacy, practices of care and ‘feelings of togetherness’.
Joy Mariama Smith researches consent and agency as related to contemporary performance.
Dylan Spencer-Davidson’s practice orbits around the question: how to be together?
