Performance

No, it can assess an action

Jacob Storer

Dates
Saturday 23 May, 13:15
Saturday 23 May, 17:00
Duration
15 min.

What I am exploring in this project is encapsulated in the title of the research. While explicitly stating the question of the performative act (action) of drawing, it simultaneously is in itself a palindrome, revealing the method utilized for producing the action. (what I do on the left, I do on the right)

No, it can assessa nac ti ,oN

In this palindromic drawing research, my aim is to focus on the moment of action in drawing; the process of transferring. A blur between the autographic and the allographic.

As accumulation occurs, erasure of image simultaneously happens, reinforcing not the image created but the action of creating the image (construction and/via deconstruction).

He collaborates with the students from Lemmensinstituut in Leuven. He shared the principle of this work and developed the work with multiple bodies in space. At 17:00, the second performance, you can see his solo and version with the students one after the others.

Jacob Storer

Jacob Storer graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2016 and joined Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017. He assisted and created new choreography for West Side Story on Broadway in 2020 with Rosas and subsequently joined the company until 2024. He is currently based in Brussels as a freelance choreographer, performer, and teacher.

Making work at the crossroads of movement research, visual art, and music, Jacob also collaborates in creation with artists such as Tom Hallet (Mare, 2023, …an Elegy for Snowy View, 2024), Victor Guaita (Garden, 2025), Carlo Sampaolesi and Diane Madden (Richiamare, 2026), and Alvin Curran (Spare Time, 2027).

Jacob has restaged Rulegame 5 (1964) by Trisha Brown at Le Frac Bretagne in 2025, and has taught workshops at P.A.R.T.S., Charleroi Danse (Brussels), PERA (Northern Cyprus), Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi (Istanbul), NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and MoMA (New York).

Credits

Choreographed and performed by
Jacob Storer, Maroussia Ivanov, Valentina Steenkiste, Hanne Jacobs