After a full on weekend with Ben, I spend the week focusing on a solo performance I have in a weeks time at The Junction in Cambridge. I have proposed a piece called, 'Everybody standing around sniffing the platform at Hertford East where it always smells of urine'. This performance has been developed from its first presentation during a residency last summer at Courtyard art centre, its about the recession, still, and the universal smell of urine- global issues.
I say I have been focussing on it this week, but actually found myself strangely avoiding it and coming up with new ideas. I was even for a moment there thinking of presenting the current rural work within this performance. I always do that, try and get everything that Im working on into one performance, it kind of dilutes it though and I'm left thinking, okay I've presented that now, what do I make work about now? so, luckely and after a good conversation with Jenny, I have decided to preserve the stuff I have only just started working with, for presentation in a year and stick to the original ethos of this performance. It was afterall all there, it didn't require new ideas or any extras, I had just forgotten it and forgotten what it was about.
I have spent today revisiting it and refreshing it, bringing up to date and adjusting it in accordance to the space I have been given- a small office space.
I'm happy about this and excited at the prospect of using and re-arranging the genuine contents.
