Niall Jones

With C O M P R E S S I O N, Niall Jones continues a practice of dis/assembling the theatrical space. Trained as a dancer, the artist builds his work through scores that rely on circumventing mechanisms of language. Through this process, his work undermines what we take for granted about the theatre, its fixed architecture and temporality, and the relationship between bodies and materials within it.

A participant,

a voyeur

metal

pipe

meddle

pry

A theater composed of scaffolding,

movable and removable parts

A stage below a stage next to a stage over a stage

Tiers

(oh the t e a r s)

dis/place to dis/place

Networks of pushy asymmetries

in sway, slur, blur, purrrr

Flash,

dark rider