“I wanted to make something about what moves us from being stagnant and stationary to being active and involved, and recognizing that we are always participating in this world, whether we acknowledge that or feel that or want that.” In this new video, choreographer Faye Driscoll draws on her Thank You For Coming trilogy to reflect on the relationship between the performer and audience and the way in which the theatrical stage can create a space of temporary community and coming together. Made on occasion of the presentation of the final part of the series—Thank You For Coming: Space—Driscoll unpacks the conceptual underpinnings which informed Come On In, her first gallery exhibition to date, commissioned by the Walker. A recurring concern permeating the trilogy, as well as Driscoll’s exhibition, is an interest in the relationship between the body and sense of self, and the many ways we encounter one another in everyday life.
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