Walking along the beach yesterday I had a thought over how to structure the material more in my terms. Maxims. Maybe it is the Confucius book that I am reading at the moment that led me here or maybe it was already there from the start with the title ‘the customer is always wrong’. In any case what is attractive is using a series of maxims that I would write out in Chinese to structure each section of the performance. Each character could have an associated action or object so that when working with the material these would come into play regularly. Admittedly this may lead to somewhat silly consequences if I allow it to go that way and maxims put through google translate can sound pretty daft too. I do want to play with or at least reference those cliches but I am also keen not to get stuck with them so we will see. In any case this feels like progress as it is the first proposition that connects my various elements (stories, images, movements, concepts, language) in an integrated way placing them on the same level rather than allowing one to be subservient to another.
I also arranged the performance a bit more having set a date for it in March and discussed the exhibition that will follow.
