how long have I done this?
Notebook
soft matter score
This score is written as part of soft matter, an emerging research project that explores a choreographic territory of touch; its ambiguities, sensate world and field of afterglow. (you may close your eyes, or open them at any time during the process of the score)
A short residency at Manorbier Reading Room Thursday 25 January 2018
Walk to the sea at sunset, watch the sun fall beneath the horizon over the sea, turn and walk back to the reading room. Light a candle on the table, walk in a room of shadows. Lying on the floor, the room becoming dark, I draw the figures i remember from the beach by candle light.
October 19. evening
An evening performance of all the studies, with live Skype link to Barnaby Oliver in Melbourne. Audience select the order of the studies using cards, a visual score is lined up on the wall. People come, some returnees, and sit on the edges of the space. I enjoy the link with Barnaby, a feeling of comradeship in the space, like old times, but now mediated and with time delay. This evening is celebratory, a sense of Read More
October 19. Day 12
My last daytime engagement in the gallery today… i invite visitors to throw dice, i perform what ever study the dice falls at. It becomes playful and it seems that in the act of throwing the dice that there is an investment in the outcome, the way people watch is different, perhaps because they have in part determined what they are seeing. At the end of the session i have a skype call with Barnaby Oliver Read More
DAY 10. October 17
Today i become interested in the shared experience here; an older couple walk into the space, a strong sense of curiosity and openness comes with them. What they also bring is their accumulated experiences of looking at things. As i move through one of the studies i become aware that we are sharing an experience of a number of moments. In a way these are not specific to what i am doing, and something is transmitted Read More