i think live illustration is interesting and surprisingly underexplored, so it’s been great to see friend camille aubry’s scribing practice taking off. we spent some time a while back articulating the potential of her practice, since then she’s been accepted into the pervasive media studio, and now this: live illustration expanded, a DYCP funded research and development project. broadly in two parts: co-present? and remote?
first came a collaboration around co-present performance, with cam exploring projection mapping with alex from limbic cinema and performance with poet laurence hoo. covid unsurprisingly thwarted plans of an in-situ audience, a shame given illustrators’ ability to respond in the moment really opens up the scope for what a live performance can mean (a formative experience: the dragon that wasn’t a crocodile). nonetheless, it was wonderful to simply be in a room with people working towards a performance, and help film its realisation.
second, came a collaboration around remote performance…