Autobiography is contemporary performance by Wayne McGregor.
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"Wayne McGregor has been making choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body, moving intelligently in space and time. His practice has been far-reaching and sought out collaborators from a diverse range of artistic and scientific fields to investigate the nature of embodied cognition. Now McGregor turns his attention to the body as archive, as he embarks on a cycle of choreographic portraits illuminated by the sequencing of his own genome. The first of these studies, Autobiography, is an abstract meditation on aspects of self, life, writing, refracting both remembered pasts and speculative futures".
— Sadlers Wells
My response to the given brief was to create a fold out poster whereby the composition was constructed using Adobe InDesign (all other graphic elements were constructed using Illustrator and Photoshop).
The aim of this project was to make a promotional visual exploration of Autobiography. Through the application of graphic visual language I was required to create a print or digital visual ‘synopsis’ that explores and presents: the idea being to de-construct and graphically re-construct the movement, space and extended ideas within McGregor’s performance work to a reader or audience to a given format.
The project is a graphic exploration of a performance that was developed through the reflections on ideas and theories alongside the possibilities of physical bodies moving and interacting with space. I engaged with typographic application, both type as a method to embody graphic ideas and as a means of communicating information.
