An ongoing laboratory that asks,
What happens when performance is not a demonstration,
but an u n fol d i ng condition?
Performance is understood as an event composed through:
attention,
r e l a t i o n,
d u r a tion.
It does not need to beginattention,
r e l a t i o n,
d u r a tion.
A tussle between
bodies,
objects
and
space.
when an audience arrives
or
ends when an action stops.
ends when an action stops.
Rehearsed
but
responsive
structured
but
unstable.
Bodies
are treated as sensing and thinking agents.Attention
is practiced throughlooking, listening and staying.
Space
is reorganized through
sensation, feeling, emotions
the logical, the illogical, the imagined.
Objects, balloons, carpets,
chairs, found objects
are treated as collaborators that shape movement and perception.
Memory
enters as materialthrough repetition, archives, gestures
remembered by the body,
the body loops what it remembers all too well.
Images
studying the world around uswhile observing the body and its shapes.
Meaning
is not illustrated. . . it accumulates through action.
Formed collectively and individually.
Formed collectively and individually.
Outcomes
may appear as
performances,
poetry,
ideas, conversations,
or unfinished propositions.
performances,
poetry,
ideas, conversations,
or unfinished propositions.
We turn around, go elsewhere
and arrive back at ourselves.