Season for Falling and Invitation to Fall (2013) by Amy Sharrocks is a durational, participatory live art project developed during her Sculpture Shock residency, in which she and others explored the physical and conceptual act of falling as a way to question ideas of risk, vulnerability, control, exposure, and the “shame” associated with losing balance or stature. Over the course of the residency, Sharrocks repeatedly engaged in acts of falling—sometimes using her own body and other times inviting members of the public to join her—to examine falling as a natural and shared human experience, overturning cultural biases toward being upright and sure‑footed.

In Invitation to Fall, held on London’s King’s Road and later presented at the Museum of London, participants were encouraged to fall onto crash mats in public, foregrounding the complicity of witness, collective engagement, and the liberation in embracing imperfection and risk.