Sestu á allt eins og hest.
Draft III
Make two equal mounds of dirt and salt, close but separate.
Use a spade to shovel the dirt to a third spot so as to temporarily create a triangle.
When you have moved as much dirt as you can, move on to the salt.
Shovel the salt to the place where the dirt lay originally.
Repeat in a triangular motion until sand and dirt are mixed.
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Draft II
Go to the harbour
Buy some fish-heads
Sit adjacent to pile of fish-heads
Think about the possibility of peace in the Middle East while the gulls devour your gifts
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Draft I
An actor recites a monologue.
A layman recites the same monologue at the same time.
The layman tell a story in his own words .
The actor does the same story.
A dancer moves through a choreography.
A layman moves through the same choreography at the same time.
The layman does a series of casual actions.
The dancer does the same casual actions at the same time.
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Drawing
I have also been drawing. Taking what is next to my hand, whether it be a pen, pencil or highlighter… and draw. I have been drawing a lot of old people lately, or ‘elderly’ people. As long as there is people at the end – I like that we are all people, at least it is easier to understand than the words that come before ‘people’.
Drawing is a way to differentiate, to analyse your environment if you are drawing figuratively as I like to draw. I would like to adopt this into my performances; I would like to find a way to break up our way of understanding information, making us puzzle it back together in a different way. Trying to be the other, together. The way I understand it is basically from two sources, one is an issue of Scientific American that probably still lies in our bathroom in Glasgow, the other a keyword glossary from Chicago University, and it goes like this: Our brain functions pretty much the same way whether we are trying to remember the past or foresee an event that has yet to take place, it uses a network of memories to simulate the possible event – built from experience – or it browses these same memories to find connections to the desired memory, also building from experience. We also link things together to make sense of other people or bodies. This might sound really straight forward, and it is, it is how memory and sensory information is processed in the healthy human brain – but untangling this web is where it gets exciting.
So drawing is an exercise in this. Instead of drawing a face you draw one eye and then the other, eyelids first, then pupil or brow, etc. I can see this developing into collages… and who knows what’s next.
Oh yes, better find those links before I forget.
http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/drawing.htm
…can’t find the exact article from SA but there are a lot of good ones on the website.
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