Sample Images

The four images below come from Chapter 5 of Thinking in Four Dimensions. Chapter 5 details The Niche Series: a six-part collection of works devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space: a navigation of fine lines and precarious terrain, in both live performance and digital media. The series, dedicated to Shirley McKechnie, was created over two years during 2002/03.

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Performers: Shona Erskine,Victor Bramich Photo: Kate Callas	Performers: Bokui Akiko (foreground), Kobaysahi Yuka, Kuroda Yuri Aishi Arts Centre Photo: Tatsuo Nambu	Performer: Lisa Griffiths Photo: Kate Callas	Performers: Lisa Griffiths/Victor Bramich (foreground), Shona Erskine/Nalina Wait Photo: Alejandro Rolandi

The Niche Series is set within a theatrical world of potent spaces. Through video to installation to live performance, it endeavours to question, unsettle and expose basic assumptions of how we occupy space—for space, after all, is critical in our lives: it affects the way we live, move and interact with each other. On an intimate scale, the space of our bodies is our physical reality. On a global scale, the competition for space is the source of much conflict. On a universal scale, space is a conundrum. How do we deal with the relative scales of immensity and the microscopic to the atomic? This series of works has been devoted to understanding the precarious relationship we have with space and the fine lines we traverse for survival.