Drawing on my collaboration as a performer-deviser with the theatre company New York City Players, and on principles of sculpture, spatial theory (Henri Lefebvre), and cultural theory (Sara Ahmed), my practice-based research examines the social relationality of the performer/spectator encounter that is established through space.
By drawing attention to the relational processes of production between the body and space; to the individual performer as an object both defined by space and a subject actively creating space; and to the social relationality between performer and spectator, my PhD enquiry examines how the application of sculptural principles within a theatrical context, dissolve the boundaries between aesthetic practice and social practice.