We have been trying to identify areas of our project, which we want to focus on whilst in Japan, and which also resonate with the context of the dislocate festival
At the moment these seem to be the areas that we wish to explore:
Creative inhabitation
– How technology can be inhabited to produce slowness and stillness
– How stillness and slowness can be inhabited in complex and often contradictory ways, where movement, flexibility or potentiality are revealed within situations perceived as static or stable
– What are the implications/possibilities of this in relation to wider social or political situations that are also perceived as static or stable
Synchronicity and rhythm
– Playing with and disrupting the habitual flows, patterns and rhythms of movement in the public realm by creating moments of performance that are out of sync or which playfully refuse to behave according to the rules
– Explore our preconceptions about urban ‘flow’ – and develop models of affecting disruption to habitual speeds of urban navigation
– New context: how our expectations may be challenged/questioned, and how unexpected ‘speeds and flows’ might be experienced.
– Using synchronised or collective action as a way of creating ‘communities of experience’
Invisible performances
– How our work might create opportunities for invisible performances or performance that operate within or under the cover of existing everyday performances
– The blurred line between actual or propositional performances, the real and the imagined
Interrogating Contexts
– Examining the impact of cultural context, location and individual positionality, and how the specificities of place and context influences our actions/performances
Language
– The use of instructions/invitations/propositions (in different textual and verbal formats)
– The nature of the interdisciplinary exchange between artists and writers
– How text functions in different ways within our work
– Exploring the relationship between propositions, instructions or invitations, and how these are responded to in different ways by an audience/participant
Stop/Pause
– The conceptual and physical differences between stillness as stopping and stillness as pausing – and the tensions here between stillness as a mode of refusal, resignation and of potentiality
