FLEUR ELISE NOBLE (Australia) 2-Dimensional Life of Her

There will be TWO DAILY PERFORMANCES of this piece, one at 7pm and one at 8.30pm.  To book please call CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

A performance work made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper. The audience enters a space pregnant with possibility, becoming part of a multi-dimensional real time artwork. Tensions build between surfaces and realities, as the act of creation separates itself from the artist who is responsible for its beginnings.

In a space littered with papery chaos, a drawing unfolds upon large paper surfaces. Projected image and a naturalistic soundscape traverse the space between, and the space inside, deceptively empty surfaces.

New realities present new dilemmas, breaking through everything that is thought to be solid. The artists’s marks assume a life of their own, and their history, the artist’s truth, is replaced by contradictory propositions. 2-Dimensional Life of Her posits a richly imagined parallel world where drawings reproduce themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three dimensions. Sheets of paper suspended in space appear thickly laden with marks, only to be scrubbed clean, revealing windows into yet another parallel reality where the laws of physics are different still.

A densely layered line drawing is given an alternative genesis as a monoprint, stamped from the ink-soaked face of a puppet. Time compresses; a drawing that we know to be built up through the laborious accumulation of marks is seen to be created in an instant. Amongst all this, the artist appears as a kind of sorcerer’s apprentice, barely in control of the elemental forces she has unleashed.

Fleur Elise Noble is an Australian Director / Creator of visual-based theatre experiences. She has a specific interest in the performative possibilities of drawing and process. In 2006 she received a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) from Adelaide Central School of Art. She has also studied in New York, and worked with a number of theatre, arts and multi-media professionals in Australia and New Zealand. Her work has been exhibited in numerous established and make-shift spaces around Australia and overseas and this is her first presentation in the UK.

Arts SA, Arts QLD and the South Australian Youth Arts Board have supported the development of this project.

Part of New Territories 2010