limb limb limb

Tyra Wigg’s experience of massage therapy and care has stimulated their curiosity about how the performing arts can intersect with other forms of bodywork. Wigg explores how the fusion of artistic and physiotherapeutic practices can strengthen and expand the subjective physicality of the audience. Wigg believes in the need for an intimate and curious relationship with one’s own physicality if concepts such as ecology and queerfeminism are to be fully embodied.

limb limb limb is a solo performance with many actors. A tactile soundscape carrying memories of touch is projected through four loudspeakers. There is a shifting performer, a grey figure. Is it a pile of stones? A massage therapist? A cyborg? A dancer? Then there is the audience, spread out across the space, very much in everyone’s field of vision. Free to move about and invited to rest.

There is the architecture and the materiality of the space itself, which, like the audience, is carefully studied by the artist. Between and through these elements, something invisible and very tangible approaches. This phantasmagorical being in perpetual change tells us that a body, or the constructs that surround it, are only as solid as our imagination allows them to be.