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Skype call with Cristina & Marnie
How can we invite audience members to include their own process in visiting the work?
Write / say / record 3 words. in the middle of their experience. Give them something to take at the end. Cris on the mike with camera person - at a process. Come up w 3 words if they were to engage with me around the protest. what brought you here, what do you see, etc. Invitations are a powerful thing. But requires facilitation. Invitation needs to be presented from an established intimate space.
BOAT
Audience members invited to throw lights over the river to the other side of the bank, to light up performers in a boat on the river.
people in a boat .. this is such a powerful image/archetype.. its in the bible, in the news.. its in our cellular memory if we reach into ourselves and raises.. for me.. issues around belonging that belong to colonization, invasion, migration.. transition/transportation
Opens so many doors/portals through space .. time and existence
In my perf practice (Marnie) I feel unable to transport the work from one site to another. Choreography and movement work, for me at this stage, rarely is able to be honestly transported. one loses one's connnection and immediate response-ability to materials / and surrounding subjects because they are different.
ie. I (Marnie) cannot perform a charcoal dance in a green environment. COMPLETE DISJUNCTURE. However, Romans are still Romans in Venezuela
And charcoal may be some part of the existing environment that has contributed to it being green now.. can you tap into that in the site, Cris asks.
Marnie agrees completely.
TIME AS THEME
That's why this work is all about time. Going on from conversation with Rachel last night, it's about relation into time, timing, tempo, speed, macro/micro - which i believe is not about space, but about the same thing - same place - happening simultaneously. Human limitation to be able to access ancient knowledge that is not nec immediately evident. ie we require TIME to be in an environment - working physically there in that place, to pick that stuff up.
Therefore if we are going to present this work - in any way with bodies, we need ~ a week prior to production. We need time to work and get to know our materials.
Materials - projection fabrics, the venues, equipment, the boat, the environment etc
PRIOR: know the footage/image groupings what we want to achieve. THEMES ESTABLISHED.
THEN venue options identified.