A performance commissioned by London-based curatorial initiative FormContent, as part of It’s Moving From I to It – a 15-month programme on visual language, abstraction, disappearance and the object. The programme comprised a series of commissioned texts, workshops, a set of public events and exhibitions – this commissioned performance piece formed the final chapter.

It’s moving from I to It – The Play playfully animates the questions and discourses informing FormContent’s project. Tim Etchells was invited to draw upon the dense body of voices within the over-arching project, and respond with a linguistically unstable performance, a subjective and playful reading of its thematics. Working across texts and visual materials, this conclusive chapter made tangible some of the concerns raised by various contributors regarding issues of authorship, narrative potentialities and institutional rhetoric.

This performance text was written and directed by Tim Etchells, and performed by Jennifer Pick and Bruno Roubicek, at venues across the UK and Europe throughout 2014-15.