Live Performance: Compass [photographic evidence]

Ball Cam is an innovative camera-in-a-ball that Lizzie Sykes invented. She uses the cam in collaboration with dancers to produce a series of highly original dance/video pieces in which the dancers themselves are able to control the camera. These are photos of 'Compass' - a live perfomance event by Olu Tawio and Lizzie Sykes that took place at the exhibition.

ARTIST STATEMENT
"At the core of my work is the moving image. Other dynamic forms I work with are dance, landscape and recently sound... combined with video. I love the concept of cameras. The physical, immediate, sometimes playful nature of the work means that now and then I need to create cameras, or bits of cameras, to achieve the response in myself and an audience that I’m looking for.

"Ultimately, the films are all collaborations that evolve from a response to an initial idea. That starting point is the beginning of an organic process where I develop and devise an idea, one that often changes out of all recognition by working at it physically, on location."

You can view photographs of Lizzie Sykes experimenting with the Ball Cam HERE.

And a video of Lizzie playing with, and talking about, the Ball Cam HERE.