Essays
Virtual Futures 2.0
The social parameters that distinguish the actual from the virtual have diminished to the extent that the sincere aspect of action is created through rhetoric over bodily labour. The increased desire to be 'online' as avatars of network sites have meant users have had to (re)present themselves with a cybernetic persona whereby images and profiles signify existence. How does this affect the authenticity of the body and its relationships?
Virtual_Futures_2.0.pdf (88 KB).
Current work: Temporality in Performance
"Notions of time and space are complicated in performance. We deal with the heightened 'now' and 'here' with the ambiguous space between 'real time' and 'ritual time', as apposed to theatrical or fictional time..."(Gomez-Pena in Heathfield, A. 2004). Duration in performance is something that is often thought of in the most functional of ways. 'When will the performance finish?' 'When can I book my taxi for?' Temporality in performance plays a more important in its own creation, but how?
The Artefact of the Performance
'A man walks across a bare stage whilst some watches him' (Peter Brook). 'Performance, alone, does not exist.' It is not tangible in the same respects as a book or a film, yet for the moment it is presented, it has a life, a meaning, an essence; it is something to be experienced and be in possession of. The physicality of creation remains while an implosion of analysis becomes the fundamental part of its own being. It is not a question of how well we perform, but what we interpret the work to be. Performance only survives when it is regarded as such.
The Artefact of the Performance
