“Luke George”
Luke George
11 June → 23 June 2012
"I am interested in inhabiting strange spaces in performance that are simultaneously mysterious/visceral/non-rational versus explicit/cognitive/conceptual. I am exploring this through developing a practice of improvisation and using vocabularies that originate from outside of dance, but inscribing them in dance.
During my time on residency at West Space, I will be working on what it is to access the supernatural and the scientific as modalities to apply to the performative body and the performer/audience situation, as a way to explore what is perceiving, knowing and believing." — Luke George
This project is part of Time Has Come Today, a special season of experimental live art, audiovisual and performance projects at West Space.
West Space acknowledges the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, for their support of this project.
Born in lutruwita/Tasmania and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Luke George is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft, curation and rope. Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk. Luke’s practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke sees dance and performance less as spectacle than as reflexive practice, in which people examine themselves and their values through movement and interaction.
