Performance Writing MA based at Arnolfini, Bristol
making language live on the point of collision and collaboration allowing trajectories away from print and page into installation, audio, digital, performance and visual arts
practice and theory meld(mould)ing space, physicality, location and context to fire words with new meaning
fluidity not fixing
it’s all about happening
Why did you come here ?
What do you want?
What do you want?
What do you want?
What do you want?
What are these decisions made on?
[ ] {Silence} ( )
‘sigh‘
multi-storied ebbsnflows constructed from breath and silence undermining melting mountains
up
clamber or sl
i
de
down
?
slices of spatiality occupying nothing but themselves –
taking up nothing (but their own time)
straddling insideoutside in at least two places all jumbling timeticktick
tumb
ling
In such a place, let’s walk. Rhythms help.
The same kind of ticket – though not the same ticket – may be used.
try to think in bubbles this time… bubbles floating up upup colourrising in sky
peep through fingers over screened eyes into something that separates something that brings together
walking walking walking unmappables through time and space
spaces spaces so important in knowing where to go
Count the multiplicity of options here! (then recount to be sure)
Surely you can see! Cannot it all be taken in in one short twenty-first century cram-packed glance?
Please, tap your fingers.
[behaviour, allegedly in the power of the individual, is fundamentally dictated by historical circumstances]
TAP YOUR FINGERS
language is
at best a mere-part
of the story
Erasmus Intensive Programme on Digital Literature, University of Madrid
SWitCH
open
pre-e-e-ss
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click
ding ding
click click
New
white
tap
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tap
tap
S L O W
tap
click
click
click
ding
black
SWitCH
Erasmus Intensive Course on Digital Literature, University of Madrid, Spain
composing = textingshapesounds in definites un beginnings shadows in minds lie dormant for years (then past) others previously unknown searchingsearching until rise free (now past) everything contributes nothing wasted or wasteful a shape forms shifts restlessly continues flexing fluxing settles shakes moves on nothing plain to see until that single specific moment of presentation and then it flows on again spoken voice digital recordings spatiality movement energy pulses in>through>round>from potential is infinite shapes swimshoaling under any thing could happen
it does
it will
white landscapes horizon
horizon underscores culture
culture borders language
language choreographs mind
mind perceives place
place moves presence
presence speaks horizons
horizons lay down stillness
stillness movement flicks
flick
repeat
flick
flicks
momentum flick
moment POWERS
(flicktwistflick)
powerflick sings
(twistflextwistbreath)
singsbreathefluxBEING
(swshswshtwist
wait then)
beingDANCESbreathemusic
(flexbreathflickflex)
musicmetrespulsesBODY
(bre-breathswshflux)
body pulses rhythm rhythm
(fluxflexex breath) againagainagainagain
bluerhythmgreenrhythmforestrhythmsearhythm
BREATHrhythmBREBRE
BREATHrhythmBREBRE
BREATHrhythm
BREATHrhythmBREATHrhythmBREATHrhythm
PULSE
rhythm pulse rhythm pulse pulse
p-pulse
p-pulse
p-pulse
still
pulse
still
breath
calm
connectings
Repetition (Aomori Project), an evolving dance project linking Wales and Japan, conceived by Sioned Huws and performed with Reina Kimura, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 9 June 2012.
‘Aomori is at the Northern most tip of Honshu Island, with short summers and long arctic winters. Forests of blue-green, mountains of soft linear impressions, seas of deep navy. In winter, the repetitive, silent snowfall arrives. A landscape transformed. The heartbeat slows down; the body is overwhelmed by a desire to rest, to lay horizontally in this blanket of white.’ (Sioned Huws, choreographer and dancer)
continuings
