Slipping Away

for a Grandmother, her Daughter and her Granddaughter

Created by Alice Chance for Infinity for Dinner.

The ingredients for Slipping Away are simple: a family of women singing the same words together in harmony.  Yet these ingredients sustain a work which, in theory, could continue to evolve forever. Individual recordings of these women play on an infinite loop while little differences in the lengths of the clips ensure they gradually slip out of phase. Mothers and daughters slipping away from each other is a part of life, whether through growing up, moving away or passing away. It can be barely perceptible. It can be hugely painful. And sometimes, even though neither party wants it to happen, it still does.

Wilcox Performance: Chris Wilcox, Felicity Wilcox, and Tallis Gill

Boyd Performance: Jan Boyd, Tink Boyd, and Lucy Boyd.

How to Stage a performance

• Gather three devices and choose which will play each video.

• Match your volumes, make the videos full screen

• Hit the spacebars all at the same time.

If you don't have three computers handy, just press the PLAY ALL button below.

Wilcox Performance

Boyd Performance