Artist, Luke George is creating this participatory performance especially for Toulouse to explore with you the way in which everyone, since the start of this pandemic, has portrayed their intimacy and ventured into that of others, in particular strangers. After several months confined in our domestic spaces and far from each other, how to rethink the places in which we live, how to inhabit and share them? How to be together again?
Each video call will be recorded and added to a published archive of participants, published online and exhibited for In Extremis 2021.
> Reservation required, only by phone
Lead Artist: Luke George
Website Design: Shaun Manyweathers
Public participants: living in Toulouse, France
Creation Consultants/Collaborators: 7 artists
Producer: Alison Halit
IN EXTREMIS 2021 / HOSPITALITÉS
Théâtre Garonne in partnership with ThéâtredelaCité, le Vent des Signes, as part of Prémices - La Biennale Internationale des Arts Vivants Toulouse Occitanie 2022
This work is a part of Public Actions – an ongoing social choreographic project by Luke George that highlights situations where bodies and objects, the artist and the public negotiate the social codes behind their collective actions. When the lines between observation and participation become blurred, artist and audience may enter into a collaborative relationship and work together to reconsider the question of art as a force for social cohesion.
Luke George (lutruwita-Tasmania, 1978) creates new performance and visual work that engages daring and at times, unorthodox methods to examine the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity, creating ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk. Luke’s sensitivity towards the positions of alterity is informed by queer politics.
His artistic practice takes an intersectional approach, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another.
Théâtre Garonne have previously presented Luke George's works Erotic Dance (2017) and Bunny (2019 as part of the Biennale at the ThéâtredelaCité).