ABSTRACT
The Italic I is a practice-based collaboration between writer-artist Emma Cocker and interdisciplinary artist Clare Thornton, for exploring the various states of potential made possible through purposefully surrendering to the event of a repeated fall. Within The Italic I , we approach the studio as a gymnasium, a testing ground for rehearsing and interrogating different episodes within falling, for elaborating upon its discrete phases or scenes. Rather than an accidental occurrence encountered by chance, within our artistic investigation the act of falling is apprehended consciously as an exercise of both mind and muscle, tested out in physical, cognitive, and even linguistic terms. Operating at the interstice between performance and poetics, The Italic I involves the live investigation of falling, slowed and extended through the use of both lens and language. Our enquiry comprises an attempt to capture and communicate the event of falling visually and linguistically, through the prism of photography and the generation of a poetic lexicon.
