live PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / FILM
Collaboration with Coby Sey
2020 - 2022

This work looks at finding ways to dissolve hierarchies and to deconstruct normativity through a compassionate collaboration that explores the synaesthesic relationship between what is felt, seen, heard and understood.

Bringing together performance, 6.1 surround sound and live projection, the artists investigate the energetic, vibrational and emotional exchange occurring between two organisms meeting and sharing space.
How frequency might translate into movement, gesture into resonance, image into vibration.
‘A Tender Ascent’ is an immersive audio-visual live journey that invites us to lose sense of space and time as we know it.

Read Tank Magazine interview here

A Tender Ascent represents the culmination of work begun during Wysing’s ‘Broadcasting’ in 2020, when Berthelot and Sey were in-residence at Wysing as part of the programme for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned (curated by A---Z). 

A Tender Ascent is supported by Arts Council England and Fluxus Art Projects.
Exhibition curated by John Eng Kiet Bloomfield 

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