Inwards Outwards Sideways Almost. 2016

In collaboration with Montreal-based artist Pascale Théorêt-Groulx, Inwards Outwards Sideways Almost is a documented performance series, which connects embodied questions of support and constraint within public infrastructure. The industrial settings are used to experiment with movements beyond the utility of their coadified applications. 

Performed by Martin and filmed by Théorêt-Groulx, Inwards Outwards Sideways Almost shows a precarious negotiation between choreography, improvisation, and public liminal spaces, where the artist moves towards impossible outcomes, resulting in adjustments and compensations which almost achieve the desired result. Using pre-set terms, such as “the body can (a) but cannot (b)," the architectural settings for each performance become both hinderance and support for the various goals of the choreography. These impossible terms set for the performances strive for a goal beyond stability, touching on subjects of urban survival, coadified space, and performativity of the self. 

 

Inwards Outwards Sideways, Almost. 2016. Firewalls, choreorgaphy, video, stills.

Inwards Outwards Sideways, Almost. 2016. Loading bays, choreorgaphy, video, stills.

Inwards Outwards Sideways, Almost. 2016. cement pavillion, choreorgaphy, video, stills.