Falling Up, Dancing Down is inspired by an event in 1982 where American truck driver, Larry Walters, attempted a balloon flight using a cluster of helium filled weather balloons and a lawn chair. For Falling Up, Dancing Down the artist will prepare to be lifted into the air until she reaches a point of suspension. It is this state of suspension that the artist hopes to achieve but whether this will be possible is dependent on external weather factors on the day. The tension of success or failure will be evident in the work until the very end. Taking place in a quadrangle surrounded by a business school Falling Up, Dancing Down questions notions surrounding achievement and failure and how we fail without falling.

DURATION: This performance will take place throughout the day with the culmination of the days performance process happening around 6-7pm.

Pernille Spence is an artist based in Scotland and has a background in dance, sculpture and media art. She has been creating performances, installations and moving image works since the mid 1990s, and has exhibited widely throughout the UK, Europe, USA & Australia. Pernille's work to date has largely explored a visual dialogue between the human body, movement and space, and the body's physical/psychological limits and constraints with in specific parameters. Pernille currently lectures in the Time Based Art & Digital Film department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. In 2006 she was a recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award.

What: Live Art / Performance.
Where: Abertay University Quad, Bell Street, DD1 1HG.
When: Friday 15th July 10am-8pm - possible ascent 6-7pm.