A retrospective exploration of a 1998 performance by Kate Brown with Nicholas Ridout. Part of Artist Archive.
June 18 and 19 1998. Do they remember what happened then?
Guided by instructions from notebooks, and by glitchy video recordings from 1998, Kate Brown and Nicholas Ridout turned their last documented collaboration – #nine – into a retro-tech exploration of time, memory, action and narrative possibilities.
‘Test the edge at which narrative begins to appear.’
‘Use the body as space; send information travelling through it.’
Back then, there were slow and meticulous repetitions, a revolutionary radio station on a beach in Cuba, a cassette recorder, an orange light and an exit sign.
October 21 2022. What will happen, now?
‘Memory is a field in which different times co-exist’
John Berger and Jean Mohr, Another Way of Telling, 1982.
Events
Live Archive: #nine – 21 October 2022
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Responses
“This performance made me travel in time and space along with the performers”
“Loved the richness of the experiences. Visuals, soundtrack, younger and older dancer in blue, changing places…”
“Quiet, playful, intelligent”
Gallery
Rehearsal photos from Maya Yoncali. Click to enlarge.
Credits
Kate Brown and Nicholas Ridout
Kate Brown has been making dance pieces since 1990, choreographing for theatre and opera, performing with improvisation collectives and dancing in other artists’ work. In 1992 she began collaborating with writer Nicholas Ridout, presenting work in London and New York City ranging from Over Two Legs (1993) for 23 dancers and footballers to # nine (1998) for themselves. She is currently experimenting with film, including in What’s up Buttercup? (London 2020) and during a Wainsgate Artist’s Residency (Hebden Bridge 2021).
Original Credits
# nine was originally created for ‘Ripe Nights at Union Chapel’, a programme of new work curated by Gaby Agis and Henrietta Esiri, in June 1998.