
FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace)
Commissioned Unlimited Commissions: Emerging Artist Award with support from Creative Scotland and the inaugural Dave Toole OBE Bursary Award
in development

Image: FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) by Laura Fisher. Design by Zephyr Liddell. Photograph by Emily Nicholl
FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace)
FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) is a durational performance installation for galleries and non-traditional performance spaces. In an intimate, choreographic collaboration between the artist’s body and sheets of copper metal, FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) explores processes of body heat generation and exchange during movement and rest.
FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) is a durational performance installation by Laura Fisher
Drawing parallels between the material properties
of the sheet metal and the artist’s body which experiences chronic pain, FORGED explores themes of dependency, intimacy, support and corrosion, as metal and body attempt to find a shared movement language in a delicate and precarious dance of give and take.

Image by Emily Nicholl
Through cycles of moving and resting together, a physical collaboration develops in which a disabled body and metal support enable each other's movement; bending, heating, cooling, resting, and imprinting on one another over time. Through this process, sculptural forms gradually emerge, holding on their surface marks of the physical exchange which has occurred.
Commissioned and supported by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, with funding from Dave Toole OBE Bursary Fund and Creative Scotland.
Supported by Dance Base and The Work Room’s residency progamme.
Dramaturg Thulani Rachia
Movement Research Dr Sarah Hopfinger
Audio Describer Emma-Jane McHenry & Sky Su
Installation Design Laura Fisher & Zephyr Liddell
Costume and Textile Design Zephyr Liddell
Mentoring Kim Simpson
Producer Laura Fisher
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For bookings and enquiries: please contact: laurafisher_performance@outlook.com
Images: FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) by Laura Fisher. Design by Zephyr Liddell. Photographs by Emily Nicholl
The copper used in FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) is responsibly sourced European copper, re-purposed from industrial waste and manufacturing by-product. The artist is sensitive to the historic and present environmental and colonial impacts of copper mining and commits to working sustainably and respectfully with materials in their practice.



