Fay Nicolson

OVER AND OVER PURE FORM is a long form poem activated by gesture and structured by rhythm. The piece describes the curriculum of a phantasy Art School, pasting Modernist studio exercises and Post-Modern reflexivity onto a neurotic atmosphere of contemporary neo-liberal demands.

Fay uses speech, melodrama, humour and gestural motifs to wrest communication from the grasp of the literal and rational towards the surreal, physical, associative and sensual. A chorus of students take on the forms of the contradictory pedagogical approaches they are subjected to, craving for moments of realization, rupture and resistance.

Fay Nicolson, 'OVER AND OVER PURE FORM', 2016, photographic documentation of performance.