Autobiography, 2017
Scenography
Aluminium, LED battens, projectors
First shown at Sadler's Wells, London.
Autobiography, a contemporary dance production by choreographer Wayne McGregor, is an abstract meditation on aspects of self, life and writing, a non-linear approach to a life story refracting both remembered pasts and speculative futures. The scenography created for the work encompasses a kinetic suspended aluminium lattice structure with interwoven light bars. The modular geometric layout references cells and scientific models. Conceived as an autonomous machine it traps and alters space, creating ever changing undefined environments, raising questions about how we perceive the human figure in relation to space and the constantly shifting terrains and states of being that we, as humans, exist in. Alongside this are a series of projectors which act as archives of light information analogous to the human body as genetic archive. This information is released through beams of light at different intervals throughout the work.
