Thursday, 11 April 2013

Performances for CoExist 2.


Dates confirmed: Sat 20th, 27th April & Sat 4th, 11th & 18th May
24 hour project could be an interactive performance with the people who get involved? I will run this idea by the NewREd gang; but before I do this we will need to consider how that might be realised, as I don’t really want to go to them with the suggestion of this but no idea of how, what and why etc.

I think we should have the five objects and utilize the five objects into performances. The reason I don’t want to display more to create the sense of ambiguity we spoke at the beginning of our i9deas is that I feel the work as a whole is complex and rich enough. I feel we may struggle to find a language that is understandable and coherent enough to be understood by the public at large but also maintaining our true artistic intentions. I feel the fiction/non-fiction idea is a brief in itself and I would like to dedicate real time to that and that alone.
My feeling is we should concentrate on what the work as a whole means to the adjoining spaces and how each performance illustrates those intentions. This is not to say we prescribe a forgone conclusion to the work and therefore risk building an artificial ending, but what this will do is make us further consider what is and what is not important, so as to create a work visually and theoretically clean and well considered.

There are a lot of complex elements to this work that we ourselves don’t fully understand, which is exciting, but I am a where of the context that we will be realising the work which is equally important. We can’t ram all of our ideas into one work. After the work is over we can sit down and pull the work apart to find out what was successful and what was not etc. to gain insight and experience to better realise our complex ideas into the physical. My feeling is this will only happen if we are to simplify and edit the amount we are asking form this one work.
Little and often is the way forward, as we both know the only trait we both share is to over analysis to the point where the idea can only remain in a sketch of a body of text as we are not yet experienced enough to deal with the form or the idea.

So we have a rough idea of the performance, now what we need to do is think about each of the objects and what we are asking them to do in order to edit down and further figure out what five objects can make a whole.

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