Learning To Fall is a collaborative project between Hannah and Kevin Lycett, a visual artist and musician. Both have serious chronic illnesses - between them have received significant medical care, which for Kevin has been literally life-saving.
The title of this project is a reference to the physical and philosophical experience of living with a chronic illness. What happens when your body violently attacks itself? How do you cope when you experience a striking loss of agency? What role does the actual sick person have in the care of their illness?
Together Kevin & Hannah are asking questions around agency and self healing while seeking to avoid toxic positivity, or false hopes. They believe in the power of the mind-body connection. They are using their movement and visual art practices to develop a relationship with their illnesses, and find an understanding, that goes beyond the western medical model to include the mysterious, spiritual and embodied experience of illness.
Kevin & Hannah began their collaboration through Quarantine’s intergenerational residency programme. You can watch a interview about their experience on the residency here.
They are currently recipients of an Arts Council England grant to develop their project, and are looking for partners for future performances.