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American writer Susan Sontag has said that “art is a form of consciousness”, and Hélène Cixous that we “annihilate the world with a book”. Exploring the concept of art as a process which enables its makers and observers to approach the unapproachable, Professor Helen Newall presented an interactive lecture-performance, using Isadora Duncan’s ethos of ‘“if I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it!’” This animation, which was specially created for the event in collaboration with sound artist, Karen Lauke, formed part of the lecture-performance, and was projected onto three large fine-gauge gauzes hanging the full length of the Rose Theatre stage, the layers rendering the projected images three dimensional.