I had a commission to make a performance for Chisenhale and finally it became a huge memory exercise. Did the piece on Sunday and the mind feels like it has capacity once again to learn things. I had to stop the language learning as it was interfering with the performance memorisation. I can’t say that as an absolute scientific fact but it seemed pretty clear to me that only so much of a certain type of rote learning is possible. Not that that is all I do, but, brutal repetition does seem to have a role to play. Anyway I am now back on track again and I have one one more month left before I go.
Also, I has someone check for me and this blog can be read in China. Some sites won’t work but this one does so I’ll be sticking around here for a while yet.
