Faye Driscoll Thank You For Coming: SPACE

How can we be together? Thank You For COMING: SPACE, created in 2019, is a shared rite of passage – an invocation of the transformative powers of presence and absence. In it, the American artist Faye Driscoll explores the power of performance in terms of how it enables us to experience what binds us together.

SPACE unfurls by means of an intimate installation, using suspended microphones, strings and pulleys, and in which Faye Driscoll appears alone in the middle of the spectators. Although she is the only performer, SPACE is by no means a solo: throughout the performance, she explores different ways of connecting with the audience. The American artist considers theatre as one of the last remaining secular social spaces in which the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnectedness become palpable. In SPACE, which brings her Thank You for Coming trilogy to a close, she pursues the reflections that are at the heart of her choreographic work: during a performance, what links are woven between the observer and the observed? How can these connections be experienced? Mixing body, objects, voice and live sound, Faye Driscoll looks upon SPACE as a requiem for the human body and evokes a world that is, like us, alive and constantly changing.