October 9th. Day 3. Residency A quiet day today…my attention is drawn to other qualities of movement in the space and beyond. The light from the south facing window patterns the floor with moving leaf shadows. I spend time on the floor, wait, stand and move in the space, eyes closed. Flailing arms to end. A person enters, sits and watches as i perform 2 of the studies, as i am ending she leaves, we smile Read More
October 8th. Day 2. Residency Thinking about the act of performing in an empty space. Here in the gallery i am affected by the possibility that someone will arrive at any point, keeping me alert to the movement and the small events of the space in a different way. Sometimes people enter and encounter the midst of the performance, at times this seems to create a hesitancy…some people leave, some stay: for some there is a Read More
To begin, i lie on the gallery floor, breathing as fully as i can, remembering how an embryo practices breathing in utero, before it is born. People begin to enter the space and i am drawn into performing some of the studies for them. Conversations follow from the performances: about the relative hardness of objects alongside the softness of the body, about Newtown and the generosity of the people here, about perspective and scale in relation Read More
During the summer i have been working with film maker Tanya Syed. we have been finding ways to film Studies for Maynard. Developing a visual and choreographic language that translates the performance into a piece for video. It has been, and continues to be, a complex process, it has helped me understand the ways in which this work can be seen, experienced… We will show a work in process treatment as part of my residency at Read More