THAT WHICH LIES BEYOND
by
Tim Martin-Jones
Credit: Caitlin Windless
Date: Thursday 30th March
Time: 20:45 - 21:30 (Booking Guide)
Venue: Tramway | Overspill Car Park opposite main entrance
Accessibility Info: V (Access Guide)
Age Rating: All ages
THAT WHICH LIES BEYOND is a new solo performance work that looks to examine and provoke the deliberate action of falling, and the embracing of corporeal uncertainty.
In the modern age, much effort is put into keeping the body upright; balanced, stable, neutral. Rarely is the body allowed to fall, and if it does indeed fall, it is swiftly corrected with medication, laws, or censorship. The potential aftermath, the spaces of dissolution and transgression, are avoided at all costs – lest it cause other bodies to fall. And yet, if falling is embraced openly and willingly, perhaps it can become a spiritual rite of passage – a collapsing of the boundaries between mind and body across uncharted waters. Can the ‘yes-saying’ of the mind in agreeing to fall towards an unknown destination be a radical return to the reckoning of bodily ability, increasing knowledge of ourselves through our bodies?
Through the use of repetition, struggle, and risk, THAT WHICH LIES BEYOND aims to offer a new provocation that falling is a radical action, and deepens personal wisdoms that lie just beyond the loss of balance.
Credit:
Tim Martin-Jones
INFO:
This performance takes place in the Gurdwara Guru Granth Sahib overspill car park, we ask all visitors to respect the space and to not bring alcohol, meat, or to smoke on the premises.
Tim Martin-Jones
Tim Martin-Jones is an emergent artist-poet, working primarily through performance and writing. His practice aims to experiment with embodied philosophies through performance, focussing on bodies that are placed into an ‘out of spaceness’. As a teenager he was diagnosed with epilepsy, the experience of seizures over his adolescence giving rise to a curiosity of the relationship between the mind and the body, and the synthesising of the two. Tim seeks to prompt questions about what affects are produced when we encounter another body through performance, and how this alters, interrogates, and ultimately enhances the relationships we hold with our own bodies.
