i begin by looping the studies…slowing them down and attempting to find new territory and transitions within them. i decide to continue to focus on the performance and my breathing, if conversations arise, they are initiated by visitors. I am developing a new study from my time here in oriel davies…it is a figurative, sculptural thing, not a lot happens! is it enough? A woman reads my diary whilst watching the studies and comments that it Read More
The gallery offers up different ways of relating to time. In my current state i decide to slow everything down today…what if each study took 2 or 3 times as long? Someone visits, removes her boots and sits for the whole 2 hours, a man enters and recalls watching Cage and Cunningham when he was a student at Dartington, another man talks about the view of the earth from space and Romanian refugees. I pick up Read More
my physical energy continues to seep away, replaced by something else, lighter and emptier… A man called Dewi visits today, a generous and thoughtful watching presence. He stays a length of time and we begin to talk, we also talk when i am in the midst of a study…i enjoy thinking that this is like craft…a conversation made with someone knitting or shaping something out of wood. Dewi was a primary school teacher, he describes an Read More
. My body very tired today, the accumulation of the performances on consecutive days is leading to a different, post- adrenaline state. It’s a state of time that involves a certain letting go of the effort to perform these studies…a sense of time that seems to be slowing me down on the inside. An emptying out and a different bodily experience of being here in the work, day to day. Ray Jacobs came this morning, he Read More
The morning begins busy, there are four, maybe five people in the space. So i begin to show the studies feeling quite raw today, i am coughing and my body doesn’t feel quite ready. i navigate the choreography, whilst close to the edge of my capacity. its an interesting, and at times, difficult place to be. I keep going, the repetition and peoples consistent watching begins to help. Someone returns who visited last week, she is Read More
October 10th. Day 4. Residency Today Tanya Syed’s film of Studies for Maynard arrived. Interesting to have a moving image companion of body and table in the space, alongside the live acts. People arrive today and spend longer in the space, it is saturday, maybe there is more time? This gives a different atmosphere, and a more constant sense of witness. Conversations arise; a man refers to Cage’s book Silence on the table and comments that Read More