We began this work from the question ‘What is the opposite of trauma?’ I was interested in looking at – and feeling through – how we might act on the unconscious minds of passersby to model other ways of inhabiting the body in public space, ways that speak of not trauma, but the opposite of it; not of a Walt Disney idea of happiness, but rather we investigated how the body might create a dramatic not-trauma-ness in public space: we sought to sing through the body, and convert certain kinds of vocal sound directly to movement. We took the work to: Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), the docklands in Cardiff, Canal St-Martin (Paris), and many other quarters of London, Paris, and Cardiff.

Funding provided by British Academy and University of Winchester. Artistic direction by Yvon Bonenfant. Devising collaboration from the Galloping Cuckoos.