LAST DAY TODAY 12-5. CLOSING CELEBRATION 6-9.

To give some context for my show here is another interesting website www.choreograph.net, a site intended to extend our thinking about coreography...

"Choreography is not to constrain movement into a set pattern, it is to provide a cradle for movement to find its own patterns - over and over again - to prevent a body - whether bound by skin or habits -from stagnation and enable lightness, a primal energy and possibilities only to be found once relations start dancing."
Klien

Interesting project

One of my plans with this site is to share my research process.
This of course is not just practical research, and I though it was about time I posted some of my reading matter.
I came accross this project a little while ago, here's and extract, and a lnk to find the full article by ALESSANDRA SUN.

"Choreographers and architects often say that dance and architecture share the same concern, and the shared concern is space; dancing bodies and the architectural built environment manipulate space.
But what is space? Is it static and always there, or is it ‘produced’ by movement and by construction? Is it three-dimensional as we commonly understand it, or is Time also part of the equation, as Einstein and the physicists after him have proposed – giving us notions of ‘spacetime’? Is it measurable, or is space itself a measure? Is it a conceptual framework, or does it have its own ontology – its own nature of being and existence? Is space a perception? Can it be owned or, what do we really own when a ‘space’ is ours?

These are not my questions; they have been, for centuries, part of the philosophical and scientific discourse about space. They make it clear at once that space and spatiality – or spatial property – are complex and multi-layered; the space which dance and architecture claim to share is not only physical, for there is more to space than we see in its physicality" Alessandra Sun

www.humanitieslab.stanford.edu/49/75

Encounter Closing celebration

Join me for a drink and chinwag on monday the 30th of July in the project space 6 -9pm. There is also a great jazz/funk band playing next door in ben's cafe from 9pm. Love to see you there.

Images

Correlate

correlate.
I spent a lot of time as a child doing matching games, fitting together parts.
Correlation between shapes and colours appears to be a running theme in my work.

Converge/Diverge

Converge,
coreography,
fragmentation,
match,
mirror,
replecate,
landscape,
explorer,
miniture world,
double exposed images of venice 2004,
deconstruction of a sequence of movement,
collage,
rehash,
accumulate,
collection of debries natural or manmade,
patterns of accumulation produced by movement,
material deposited by moving forces,
sediment,
rivers,
litter,
collect,
reconstruct,
reinterprate ?

More playing around with the projector has lead to a departure of sorts.
The film here is projected across various objects, some featured in it, some not. As a reasult the movement is fragmented and the piece become more like a dance.
The thing that interests me in dance is moments when shapes and forms emerge as the dancers arrive at a position or converge with oneanother, which then disolve as the movement sequence continues.
Something similar is beginning to occur here which makes sense.

I have had some great feedback from my visitors too, lots of reference to collage, and a little bit of resistance.
I wonder if it is a natural thing to be frustrated by a language that you don't speak, and to seek to define and form a solid opinion about something unknown.

Showing work to the non art public can be like speaking french to someone who doesn't speak the language and has never been to france, perhaps met a french person once and though they were nice but a bit odd.

foreign.
other
uknown
risky
frustrating


I remember thinking contempoary art was a load of incomprehensible rubbish at one time, before I realised the potential of an unlimited journey wtih my imagination.
I am beginning to think that all opinions and viewpoints must be temporary if you are to really descover what your imagination holds.

26/07/2007

Over the last two days I have been trying out different projecting options... here some images of the first of these. Today I am putting my mind to creating new additions to the installation to project onto, mainly replacing the polystyrene surface which is currently suporting most of the image with a fabric sheet running form floor to ceiling which the projection will go through onto the back wall. This should extend the peice into the rest of the space as currently stops in the middle of the space.

Encounter opens 24th of July

Come along and see my new show. This is a new direction encompassing performance, movement, dance and film. I will be showing work in progress informally and inviting discussion and feedback. This is a great opportunity to see the creative process as it unfolds and have access to the artist in person to talk about the work.

ENCOUNTER, a body, a space, some objects.
24th -30th of July Project Space W15a The Old Grammar School Redruth.
12 - 4 weekdays 12-5 weekends.

This project is part of More cornwall, a summer season of artist lead initiatives across Cornwall.
Please see www.morecornwall.org for more information and spread the word.