Re-pair: Soft Matter
Re-pair: Soft Matter features original short films and discussion exploring the problematic notion of ‘repair’ for dance artists working in a world separated by a pandemic.
About Re-pair: Soft Matter
'Re-pair' is a collaboration between Carl Lavery and Simon Whitehead emerging out of Whitehead’s relational practice soft matter. Working with invited dance artists: Neil Callaghan; Simon Ellis; Jennifer Monson; Amaara Raheem; Saffy Setohy; and Joanna Young this experiment looks to re-think what the somewhat problematic notion of repair might mean for dance artists working within a virological economy.
Ecologically and politically, the idea of repair is fraught with contradiction. It assumes that one can patch up or reassemble a world or set of values that have been harmed or damaged, in some sense or form. But why would one be interested in reviving a condition or resuscitating a situation that may well have produced the harm in the first place? Why not insert a hyphen, and replace a normative notion of repair with a more fluid, productive notion of re-pair, to re-turn with a difference, to find new futures in the past?
An outcome of this ongoing experiment, this event presents original short films capturing digital encounters between six dance artists as they respond - physically, virtually - to a shared starting point, a pair of stitched-together gloves sent through the post. The screening will be followed by discussion and reflection with the participating dance artists and collaborators chaired by Dr Dominic Paterson, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow.
Hosted by the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture and Creative Arts as part of its Arts of Repair series, in association with The Work Room, Glasgow.
IMAGE CREDIT: soft matter by Julian McKenny
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