The Dock will host Signals & Loops — a research project by Kate Wilson of Undercurrent Dance.
The project explores feedback loops in Wilson’s performance drawing practice and includes a focus on innovative approaches to access including audio description. In solo and collaborative processes, the artist will be working with transdisciplinary layers including embodied movement and drawing, music/sound and audio description/narrative/text.
This research brings with it new perspectives resulting from personal experience of long COVID and dysautonomia. Solo research begins from core study of brain-body feedback utilised in embodiment and methods for accessing the unconscious mind, pertinent to somatic process and to managing dysautonomia.
Collaborations with sound artists Tara Boath Mooney and Aoife Hammond bring additional layers as well as opportunity to cross reference practices. Through collaborative processes, they will explore feedback loops linking sound, movement, mark making/image creation, as well as simultaneous video projection with an overhead camera increasing pictorial and dialogic elements.
Supported by visual artist and projectionist Milo Cummins, layering, looping and delay processes in sound and visual elements will be explored as traces or pathways merging past and present in evolving dialogic layers. Emilie Conway joins this process bringing playful explorations of audio description to create an additional artistic layer interacting with visual and audio elements.
Signals & Loops is an opportunity for Wilson to deepen her processes and to innovate in access for performance. The research builds on her academic work 'Embodied Approaches to Movement & Image Creation' (2020) & projects 'Folds of the Soul/Curves of Time' (2021-23), also work with Emilie Conway exploring creative approaches to access for inclusive performance 'From Here, A Bridge' (2024), as well as collaborative performances with musicians Hammond and Mooney in Arts For Palestine in 2024.