NRLA and Modality

Getting really excited about an injection of new inspiration into my practice...that is, showings of fourth and third year work, Cardboard Citizens in collab with the Simon Community showing work on Monday night, debate with the Citz on Tuesday, Noisy Tuesday, a particularly interesting lecture on (amongst other things) modality and the paradox of talking about performance practice and MOST IMPORTANTLY, NRLA!

I have a lot of research to do...I want to be really clued up on the artists performing and have lots of information about who would be useful to speak to. In particular I notice that Rajni Shah looks quite interesting. She is combining curation and producing with being a maker/artist and her website features haunting images, well developed performance text/descriptions and excellent examples of documentation. See here http://www.rajnishah.com/. She also is an associate artist at Chisendale Dance space and used to programme Farmham Maltings, where Jess and Tashi have performed as Glas(s) Performance. maybe they will introduce me?

I'm keen to speak with Marcia Farquar, especially as I'm going to miss her work (it comes right before Lisa's). I think that her blurb and show premise is really close to ideas I have, and I wish I could see her performance in order to process her aesthetic and means of performance articulation.

Need to type up those notes from Roberts lecture...this kind of critical theory may really underpin the way I can present and talk about the work and my making proesses. What was totally reassuring was that I understood most of what was being said and that I have engaged in structuring exercises such as mapping or graphing performance in my Garland process. Now I can really get to grips with how i am making, and assess it in order to better my work.

ARTICULATION is the word of the day. Until now I have thought about it meaning how I am able to express ideas and speech. About how speech comes from my mouth and whether it is competent or not. Robert compared it to the articulation of joints, or a artic. lorry - i.e How things are joined, how they attach and therefore impact on each other. If we think of everything flowing, attched to each other and having a wholistic impression, how do we combine fragments of performance matter so that they make sense (or not) as a whole. OOh, exciting!