This is bad. I have started this blog with the intention of outputting lots of info about GMT- but I cannot juggle performing and blogging at the same time :(
I am in Birmingham with the lovely Home for Waifs and Strays, a project set up by two artists: Kate Spence and Aleks Wojtulewicz in Birmingham to bring performance to the city. I am awed and astounded in equal measure at the poor and wealthy areas of the city, the scale of the buildings and the canal systems that work through Birmingham.
I came here because I wanted to be displaced. I have been doing a series of performances with my friend Camilla Brenson called GMT-. we share each other’s days over Skype live in front of an audience. This time it will be between Birmingham and Peru. I have been here since Sunday night. So much has already happened: exploring the city with Kate, locating the canal system, spending the day at The Wig, visiting Museums, St Margaret’s St at Birmingham Uni, taking part in a Companis dinner party.
I am finding that to assert my identity in a new place I must acquire things. I have been doing just this and the best thing about the brevity of the stay here is there is not time for hesitation, no doubt I will be exhausted after. I already feel the rush of production and its exciting! I am anxious because I can sense an identity in my work forming.
