The marble tiling that floors Kelvingrove's main foyer is not the most giving surface to dance on – but its chequer-board contrasts of colour and the linear rules of its layout are an ideal foil for the patterns that evolve in the course of this site- specific choreography by Janis Claxton.
The marble tiling that floors Kelvingrove's main foyer is not the most giving surface to dance on – but its chequer-board contrasts of colour and the linear rules of its layout are an ideal foil for the patterns that evolve in the course of this site- specific choreography by Janis Claxton.
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Mary Brennan
In a way, Chaos and Contingency is like a living 3D kaleidoscope. What you see will depend on where you stand: ground level you can choose to stay put or move around the square performance area – head upstairs and the balconies offer a different perspective, one that sets Claxton's own regulated formations in dynamic relationship to those laid out below. And while those formations hark, deliberately, towards mathematical structures, there is an element to the swirling and criss-crossing of the red-clad shapes on this board-game floor that is darkly and viscerally dramatic – like sudden blood splatter, or petals scattering in the autumn wind.
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