Duckie at Royal Festival Hall, London (2011)
This performance explores the body as material, it’s plain external surfaces and messy internal offerings. Mitch and Parry challenge notions of desire through a joining of bodies made of liquid. The body’s oraphis as sanctuary this time, as vestibules for capturing translucent gifts – the body's holes as safe space, as desiring holes, the place of entry and exit. Time is measured in this piece through the time it takes to love – an intimate and single transfer of fluid that carefully keeps coming. One wonders how this exchange will end, if it will break, or if it will continue, always.
Images: Top 1 Alison Henry, 2/3 Tristan Spill, 4/5 Testing Grounds, 6/7/8 Stephan Mohr
