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Jimmy Robert sits at the edge of a lit square on the floor, one leg bent up

Suspended closure, suspended

Suspended closure, suspended

When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?

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What we wrote about it at the time: Jimmy’s performances are eloquent and limpid: sensitively and suggestively, links between ideas and objects are carefully implied and revealed. They rethink identity, language and selfhood as an ongoing process, rather than a pre-construction we must adopt wholesale. With subtle mimicry and quotation, restrained gestures and language, Jimmy makes visible the vulnerability of bodies: of how through a subtle form of feedback, the body becomes an image of the social situation it is experiencing, even as it contributes to that situation.

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A square of light is on the floor in a dark theatre, a turntable in the centre

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy, wearing shorts and vest sits in a square of light operating a turntable

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

silhouette of two feet as they walk the line between dark and a lit square

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Roberts walks the outline of a lit square on the floor of a dark theatre

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Robert sits at the edge of a lit square on the floor, one leg bent up

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Robert in a dark room is wearing a vest and a serious face

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A square of light is on the floor in a dark theatre, a turntable in the centre

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy, wearing shorts and vest sits in a square of light operating a turntable

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

silhouette of two feet as they walk the line between dark and a lit square

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Roberts walks the outline of a lit square on the floor of a dark theatre

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Robert sits at the edge of a lit square on the floor, one leg bent up

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Jimmy Robert in a dark room is wearing a vest and a serious face

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

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