Leaning into the Liminal
Leaning into the Liminal contemplates ideas surrounding perception & consciousness in relation to time, reality & the imaginary. Employing elements of force, gravity & mass, Kristina moves across a large scale painted surface, perhaps suggestive of a place within the self or somewhere else beyond the real. There are moments of tension & weightlessness as she navigates the boundaries & thresholds of the space. A series of bells ring, evoking a disorientating, whilst attempting to anchor presence. As the vibrations drift to nothingness, time is stretched before another bell sound carves through the space.
Choreographer/Performer: Kristina Chan
Painting/Bell Playing: Lottie Consalvo
Sound Collaborator: Bree van Reyk
Developed at Catapult as a Propel Residency for a performance at Newcastle Art Gallery and Readymade Works
Image: Dean Beletich
Response by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie, 6 November 2019
Gradients of time peel, tip and strip away with centrifugal ease
Pin drop silences gape—Agape?
Breaths held, minds stilled;
thoughts caught in a snare.
We are here, now, there, peripheral
Sharing a lifeline
World flipped 90 degrees when it’s not a sphere.
Hanging from sharp edges with fingertip grip;
dangling into mouths suffocating silence so pure.
Holding on for dear life.
Tick tock
Tick tock
Chrysalis undulations, shimmy shuffle rings;
corpuscular cell deepening an evolution
only this dance, here, makes.
Internal hieroglyph write […]
Writing
Written
Read
Every life precious
Every disappearing wave meaningful
Every movement a chaotic collection
A single chime for every chime always
One