The performance went rather well despite it being somewhat chaotic in places. That in fact was its character: a rather clumsy beast that took over the space. The addition of the subtitling was quite OK though I will have to now streamline this side of the work and make it more smooth. There is time for that. For now the major discovery was that the piece can work with just me performing it and the words appearing behind me. It remains a fiendishly difficult piece on account of the volume of Chinese I have to speak but that is also a defining characteristic of it and something people will remember.
I have been making the documentation of the work in the form of a score and completed that today. It is quite tricky to find the most appropriate way to record the work as I want to only record the salient details. Deciding what those are, such as what sort of stool to use, is tricky. When I am looking for a stool I know intuitively when I find one I can work with. I could even stop and list all the stool qualities I search for. I have to ask however if the type of stool that I desire is the type of stool necessary for the giving of this performance. The objects I use tend to have a set of personal connotations which I find aid my work. If someone else were approaching the show as a performer these connotations would simply seem eccentric and may in fact prohibit them from finding the objects that met their desires. I have to therefore ask if I am describing how I go about doing the performance or how I would pass the work onto somebody else. I have leant towards describing my own criteria rather than abstracting the work on this occasion as it is a rather personal work that I cannot imagine anyone else performing.
