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Collected Texts

Phil asked me to send him some text from my experience of working in China and I thought it would be a good idea to use my blog and pick out bite size phrases. In my work I like to collect written texts such as observations and actions as part of my visual research for my performances. I originally started my blog as a way of documenting my residency, which took place in February 2010 although I have continued to write about my practice. The idea that work just stops or is completely separate from that period is not so and I feel that the residency has provided the seed which has since sprouted into a succession of new performances in the UK. I feel the opportunity to participate in the residency at the Chinese Arts Centre is another chance to make new work in collaboration with Phil Davenport and raises the question of how to communicate past experiences which happened in China within the context of the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester.

Blog bites

Just one of those details that gets lost in translation

People turned up later and missed the party

I did get stuck for a moment

Uncertainty whether I could get over

Strange leaving party

Not sure when it started and ended

In-between the audience

Learning as a means to getting

Making it and not making it

We are seen as novelty

We somehow pull it together

Muffle of people speaking and traffic noise

Giving you some peace and quiet

Let go of the control

Trust in others

Feed it to all the guests

Trying to communicate

Can sound a bit scrambled

Climb the ladder and get over the top

They were very worried I might fall

Torn between two spaces

Stack, order, display

A gap between two buildings

Arriving, working, leaving

Felt like a tourist

Looked at

Not spoken to

I am not there

I am not here

He set off a belt of firecrackers

Better Life, Better People

One World, One Dream

A world of sameness

Tried to remember

Broken western pop songs

Sliding across off the edge of the screen

I can’t order my own food

When I speak


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