→▪ [a starting point]
decision – take part in work(mapping&writing)shop
entering
parallelwhite longwalls spaceful of strangers beanbags with bodies maps and markmakers papers and people
anticipating
introductions: names→performwrite↑student→Dartington↓artist↔ exploration↓energies←wonderings→performancewriting↓ document↑dancing↔words→tutor↓enthusiasms↔ experiences↑openess←info→structured↑ready→to→GO↔
beginning
joining
NOW leave
follow any straight line
as long as ten outdoor minutes
noting noticing
NOW return
markmaking into paper communal journeying… so different (noticings)… yet… familiar/similar (responsiveness)
resulting
to-fro-ings overmeanderlappings paintinkedness graphicwordings of movements recorded onto our longpaperlength
whiteness now technicolouring narratives sounding between parallel lines
questioning
?what are you mapping? why map how is a map {a map a tying down a fixing an instant a fencing a naming} who map when map what map how map what map ?can maps help people get lost? jumblingtoursroundSpACesNaMESCOnTOURSgraPHiCsrEaSonINgSOMisSIONSBOrrOwiNgssUbJECtiVEExcLuSIVeiLlEgiBLE
exploring
to make different sensing with silkness of charcoal and softness of pencil and scenting of crayon in smoothness of paper find pattern turn texture from pavement and roadroute and pathway and cobblestone patterns flow wallwards raise buildings and columns spill out onto air tracing patterns bluesounding from sax-singing water splash glintripple walking harmonics of bridging cityscape live-living movement through senses
Re-visiting something after a while has passed can bring another way of seeing – always worth doing if/when possible. (Performance Writing workshop exploring mapping and movement at PW12, Arnolfini, May 4-6, inspirationally lead by Melanie Thompson (performance/installation artist) and Christos Polymenakos (writer/dancer), and bringing together an exceptional group of participants.)
