Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg documented today’s 10 Performancesevent with a live feed they updated throughout the day. By the time my performance What To Do begins they’re halfway down their third page. I love their occasional attempts to type out variations on everything I was saying. You can read what they’ve written here.
The text of What To Do is available to download as a pdf from the 10 Performances website, but I’m not sure I recommend you read it: the effect of reading the text on a page or a screen is very different from the effect of the performance itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Tomorrow I’m performing a revised version of my illustrated talk What To Do as part of the Beyond Text10 Performances event. The event lasts all day, and as we contribute our performances details of each one will be posted online here, so you can watch the event unfold even if you can’t be there on the day. An archive of the day will remain on the site afterwards.
Here’s an outline from the site:
10 Performances is a text-based performance project exploring the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. Five established international artists and five UK-based postgraduate artists will contribute one written work each. Read the rest of this entry »
Resonance fm is broadcasting a new audio work of mine this afternoon as part of Digestives, the ongoing art writing radio series from antepress. It’s going to be be aired on today at 4:30pm and repeated Friday 20 November at 7:30pm.
You can listen live by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk/digestives.php.
This Saturday I’m going to present some work at FormContent with the rest of the antepress group, to mark the beginning of a season-long collaboration with the curators. The idea is that we’ll respond to their exhibitions and events with writing of some kind.
On Saturday I plan to present two recent works of mine that explore the relation between writing and its subject, and the possibility of formal contamination between the two. Both of these works comprise lines drawn from the page to the subject.
This picture is from a kind of sketchbook I’ve been carrying with me this summer. Rather than drawing pictures of the things around me I drew lines to them: pencil lines that begin on the page, score over the endpapers of the book, over whatever surface the book’s resting on, and on and on until the line reaches its subject. Read the rest of this entry »
In June I wrote a short audio play called Things Are Exact, which you can listen to here. I wrote it forwards rather than backwards: intuitively, to find something out by writing it rather than writing it to show something I’d already found out. It means listening to it remains a useful way for me to find things out.
The play draws to a conclusion around the idea of catching and joining together moments of time. Here’s part of the dialogue:
- Why do you always cry?
- I think we have to calibrate things. I think things have to be clear enough to mark differences between them. [...] I cry to mark things out.
- Do you cry because things are exact or so that things are exact?
- So that.
- Then it doesn’t have to be crying. It could be something else that joins things together. String. Read the rest of this entry »
Things Are Exact is a short audio play between an indistinct number of matching voices battling between script and spontaneity. The voices try to catch time. They try to distinguish their sore throats from sadness, their sadness from the passing of time, and the passing of time from the impossibility of shared experience.
Things Are Exact was first broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm on July 13 as part of the antepress Art Writing series Digestives.
Tamarin Norwood gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more information on the AHRC, please see www.ahrc.ac.uk.
