Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Show me the way to go home...

...I'm tired and I wana go to bed.

Another great day in workshop today.
Thoughts to take away;
1. Is juxtaposition cliched? If I create some juxtaposed images in my show with these new found skills/muscles (like me reading a text about smashing furniture and throwing from a 6th story window with the quality of a Home TV presenter), will this look niaeve? I guess it depends on how processed it is.
2. Can I spend some time really thinking about score and structure of the work? YES, shall I aim to do this on the weekend, along with majorly updating my timetable for the remaining weeks. This is a MUST!
3. Perhaps I can spend some time looking, listening and exploring the objects I'm already using. When I examined my coat and shoes today, I realised that I haven't really investigated their qualities, only considered what they might project as a costume/image.
4. Costume is a MASSIVE signifier (See NRLA Saturday blog). It is so important to get right, I think this workshop is going to help me learn about costume and exercises to use costume but I need to be clearer about what I'm trying to create in my work.

Looked over the old Into The New brochures...think I might highlight Matt's blurb as text which is important to me. See page 6 on the following http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/drama/pdf/into_the_new_2004.pdf
Also the Polish performance artist Wladyslaw Kazmierczak considers a performer to be
'a philosopher, teacher, rebel, initiator, organiser, nomad, traveller, partner, and a bearer of moral values. And characterises the struggle of the work as ...a silent, heroic fight for freedom of
expressing momentous and significant ideas.'

Hitting the sack early now, going home, in case I get ill.

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