{"id":331,"date":"2024-06-17T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chloecooper.co.uk\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:05:17","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chloecooper.co.uk\/index.php\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"WE-ing D+M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WE-ING with Eleanor Sikorski (it&#039;s about doing something to someone isn&#039;t it? Making them feel something...)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114647761?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><strong>WE-ING with Eleanor Sikorski (it&#8217;s about doing something to someone isn&#8217;t it? Making them feel something\u2026)<\/strong><\/em><br><strong>Chloe Cooper and Eleanor Sikorski<br>Screened at EX-FACTORY as part of the KULES residency, Stoke on Trent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Want<br>Want<br>Want<br>&#8211; ing to explore the materiality of those objects asked to operate as props within the performed narrative of <em>WE-ING<\/em>, Chloe Cooper invited dance artist Eleanor Sikorski to respond to their objecthood using hers\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u2026these things, these things, these things caught between object and image, anchor and illustration, prop and back drop; asked to carry meaning, to be solid and weighty and simultaneously relational and associative like footnotes and superscripts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">settle into a definite nook\u2026these things, these things, these things are just left there\u2026 marooned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THESE!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DUMB!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THINGS!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">They&#8217;ve got the ingredients: the corporate sensibilities of the foam board, the failure of the crinkled print outs, the indulgence of the model maker&#8217;s landscaping material on the papier-mache-d crack, the swank of the mirror roll, the seediness of the red plastic, the menacing weightlessness of the air dough rings but where&#8217;s the <em><strong>crackle?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">.&#8217;;&#8217;.&#8217;;&#8221;.&#8217;.&#8217;;&#8221;.&#8217;\/&#8217;;;.&#8217;;.;..&#8217;;&#8217;;;.;&#8217;;;.;\u2026\u2026\u2026..&#8217;;;..\\&#8217;;..,,;;,,.;;&#8221;&#8221;&#8217;;;&#8217;;,,;&#8217;,;.&#8221;.&#8217;.&#8217; wait! ,,.;;&#8221;&#8221;&#8217;;;&#8217;;,,;;.;..&#8217;;&#8217;;;.;&#8221;.&#8217;.&#8217;;&#8221;.&#8221;&#8217;,..;;&#8217;;;&#8217;\u2026;;\u2026here it comes!<br>&#8216;;;.;,;.&#8217;;;,.;.;.;,;.;&#8217;.;,;.; ..&#8217;;..&#8217;,.,&#8217;;;&#8221;,..;;&#8217;;;&#8221;&#8221;&#8217;;;.;;&#8217;,;;,&#8217;; it&#8217;s coming, don&#8217;t rush it! &#8221;;&#8221;&#8217;;\u2026;;&#8217;;,,;;.;..&#8221;;&#8221;.&#8217;\/&#8217;;;.&#8217;;.;&#8217;;;;;;,.;.;.;,;.;&#8217;.;,.;..&#8217;;&#8217;;;&#8217;;,,;;.;..&#8217;;&#8217;;;.;&#8221;.&#8217;;.;&#8221;.&#8217;.&#8217;;&#8221;;;.;,;.&#8217;;;,.&#8217;.&#8217;\u2026 holey moley!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u2026A bit like lava before it&#8217;s cooled and turned dull\u2026.<br>\u2026Coercing into participation\u2026.<br>\u2026A period of observation and mimicry as she surveys the situation\u2026.<br>\u2026Back and forth until something spills\u2026.<br>\u2026And escalates with a jolt\u2026.<br>\u2026One thing making sense\u2026.<br>\u2026Leading to another thing making sense\u2026.<br>\u2026Coming clean\u2026.<br>\u2026Repeating things\u2026.<br>\u2026Some things work\u2026.<br>\u2026Some things don&#8217;t\u2026.<br>\u2026Try again\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Something new\u2026. Some thing that neither was projecting before encountering the other. Rivals, playmates, enemies, kin. Testing, rolling, breaking, rubbing, nibbling, manipulating, slapping, flapping, prodding, twisting, turning, flexing, flicking, repositioning, scraping, encircling, out-doing, swaggering, mirroring, undermining, activating\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>AND YOU&#8217;RE THE GOOSEBERRY.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Capturing points of intimacy between her and the things. You don&#8217;t know what she&#8217;s going to do. You can&#8217;t get the camera in the right place. She&#8217;ll probably go out of shot. She might make you burst out laughing. 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