ISLAND | James Batchelor

ISLAND is a new performance installation by James Batchelor and collaborators. It has been developed as part of the Housemate residency at Dancehouse in Melbourne and was recently presented in Canberra with the support of Arts ACT and the Canberra Theatre Centre.

The work is a three-part study in space, investigating the role of structure in how we perceive and respond to our environment. Movement, sound and design aim to deconstruct the symbols that veil our perception of space and offer an alternative reading of what defines the body from its external environment. The work sources inspiration from three remote islands in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, as sites for utopian experimentation and concentrated analysis of space. The work also responds to the literature Island and The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, Cinders by TE Hulme and Black Mass and The Silence of Animals by John Gray.

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