In Conversation 2011, Liz Atkin and Luke Pell

In 2011, Liz met performance maker Luke Pell. They found similar sensibilities in their work and practice, and began a series of intimate conversations between their bodies, teased with call and response from deep movement memories carried out of extreme encounters, reemerging, transforming, held by each other, held by the calm of now.

A collection of images from this collaboration were exhibited in Parallax AF, Pall Mall, London in July 2011.
Liz Atkin is a visual artist based in London. With a background in theatre and dance, physicality underpins her creative practice. Skin is her primary source for corporeal art, both as metaphorical membrane and physical boundary. Her work centres on a multilayered exploration of skin questioning the limits of the body and the potentials for communication across and within the porous textures of light and surfaces. This personal investigation explores body focused repetitive behaviour resulting in a sometimes violent rendering of the body in order to condense it to matter for resculpting.

Luke Pell is a performance maker. Concerned with other ways of being in the world, he collaborates with outliers to pokes at those things we are unprepared for. Using the autobiographical body as a beginning for exploring intimate human experience, he responds through touch and light to develop visual poetries and emotive environments where thoughts and bodies shift between the ordinary and the ethereal. These explorations focus on relationship – between people and place – bringing our attention to fleeting moments that sometimes pass unseen.