Cell (2017) Performative reading with sound and props (duration: 20 minutes).
Cell was written for a performative reading from inside a Victorian slipper bath in the Laurie Grove Baths Building in New Cross. The audience was asked to move and root themselves in different viewing points between sections of the reading, echoing the shifts in the writing between different states of fluidity and fixity of bodies in flux. As the writing moves between anecdote, research and theorisation, flow, vapour and mould become enmeshed with the weightiness of concrete, the security of building foundations which fix the shifting crowd, in particular the crowd of believers, in place.
Poet and researcher Holly Corfield Carr was invited to respond to Cell at the event. Her reading can be found here.
Image (left): Cell (link to script).
Images (right & below): Cell Performance in Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths, 5th October 2017. Images: Courtesy Manuela Barczewski
Bottom: Cell - Video documentation: Courtesy Rowena Harris
