A collaboration with Antrianna Moutoula (2020)
Ella Tighe and Antrianna Moutoula have been practicing performing online together since April 2020. We work together on the ArtEZ Master Performance Practices Program and began collaborating online during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Through speaking, moving and writing their common practice has explored repetition, exhaustion and simultaneity. Ella’s research explores the concept of surrendering, through the Latin roots of the word as a retuning back to the self. Her research asks how to create hospitable spaces for surrendering to be possible both for the performer and the audience. It questions agency and the potential for risk and vulnerability inside an act of surrendering. Striving to test the limits of exposing the personal in the performance space, Antrianna’s research explores spoken streams of consciousness as a form of daily autobiography. She aims to give space for the uneventful to emerge by attempting to un-filter her thoughts during scripted and unscripted events. Through this durational work they are testing how two performances can exist and be spectated simultaneously in an online space. What is risked when they come together, what modes of spectatorship do they provoke and how does the persistence of simultaneous actions affect the perception of each work?