Des-echoes
Des-echoes, by Improv.able (Daniel Bear Davis and Caro Novella)
This piece emerged from an invitation to share the same skin during a performance jam. It was 2015. Created in collaboration with Daniel Bear Davis. With Soundscapes by Gretchen Jude.
First presented as a study during Glitch Body and Nanostalgia, a performance directed by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and John Zibell at UC Davis and supported through the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. Lured by the possibilities, Daniel and I decided to collaborate in the creation of a larger piece. Our individual explorations on the edges of my skin and transiting somatic boundaries (Caro) and those parts within ourselves that we rather disengage (Daniel), and together with Karen Barad’s text ‘on touching- the inhuman that therefore I am’, we created Des-echoes.
A second iteration of the piece emerged during the summer of 2019 as we toured the piece, which has been selected to present at SummerWorks Festival, Toronto, Canada, and invited to perform across the East Coast (Boston, Cambridge, North Hampton and New York).
“When two hands touch, there is a sensuality of the flesh, an exchange of warmth, a feeling of pressure, of presence, a proximity of others that brings the other nearly as close as oneself. Perhaps closer. ”