An Anatomy of Falling

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In November 2012 I organized a Study Room Gathering On Falling at the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). I would like to thank LADA and everyone who came for their input and contributions to the evening, which fed into this writing.

Aicha Mehrez, Alice Colquhoun, Claire Mander, Clare Thornton, Dafne Louzioti, Debbie Kent, Dorota Halina Gaweda, Emilyn Claid, Francis Alexander, Helen Savage, Katy Baird, Kerstin Moller, Lois Keidan, Mary Osborn and Rosa Farber.

In 2012 Amy Sharrocks won the Royal British Society of Sculptor's Sculpture Shock Award and is currently undertaking a residency there to continue her work on falling.

Notes

1 ‘Lulling our infinite on the finite of the seas’. Other translations have ‘rocking’, ‘balancing’ and even ‘swinging’. See Baudelaire (1954).

2 ‘we wish to plunge / … to the abyss’ depths'. Also variously translated as ‘plunge into the void’ and ‘dive to the depths of the gulf’. See Baudelaire (1954).