decisions
Thursday, January 18th, 2007I think this might be a diary entry.
It’s early on Thursday morning. This week was our first opportunity to start placing various materials ‘together’ - audio, video (two screens), embodied action underneath the viewers. It’s overwhelming.
My initial experience of being in the house (with two curtain walls, and two video walls) was daunting. So much to perceive, to notice. And as a maker, how to go about piecing the options together?
In this sense the process gets unwieldy. To make decisions on the development of a palate … and only THEN to be able to arbitrarily begin trialling the components of this palate.
We have two days left to organise/arrange some kind of working (or not) order for the end of this development. It’s exciting. Working intuitively, but at the same time with immense regard/respect for how a viewer (or viewers) might experience the materials.
“Crevice” is at in intriguing place … meaning possibilities emerging, but uncertainty and questions are the most present.
What is there beyond a fractured/partial body in this work?
Elizabeth talked (today) about the abstraction of the body through the floor that is so very different from the type of abstraction we talk about and experience in ‘regular’ performative situations.
Is there a way of digging into this man’s suchness given the perceptual limitations of the environment?

