Becoming Batty

Developed from a poem written by the artist, Becoming Batty performance tries to define the distances we maintain between each other, between other creatures and other things. But also the illusion of separation which makes us think we are exceptional.

Batty is about an inability to empathize – or the importance of the imagination in enabling empathy and in our becomings with others; other creatures and other things.

If we can stop imagining through our own singular experiences, we can realise our inter-connections -our shared biology and histories- see with clear eyes and truly listen…Batty represents all the ‘others’; the outcasts, misfits, mis-understoods, the unvoiced and the unheard ones.

Becoming Batty is a stilt walking performance with spoken word. It was first shown at The Tetley in Leeds 2020 and performed live at Common Ground in Blackburn. You can see footage of Becoming Batty being performed  at Common Ground, Blackburn during lock-down below: