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60 40 Starting Point Series exhibition now up and running. Exhibition runs untill 23rd September. To hear clips of the artists talking about their work (me included) follow the link below: http://www.siobhandavies.com/studios/events/curren…
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I had a somewhat complicated notion of using carefully placed mirrors, periscope style, to frame these everyday dances, but concluded that film would give me more possibilities and scope when it came to capturing these movements: I could use the […]
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More mulling and a few weeks later, Iris and I came back together again. I had now moved to London for the last month of the project (I live in Germany, so it’s a bit of a distance to commute). […]
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The next few meetings between Iris and I were essentially trying out the office movements to get a feel for what was working. I hadn’t really worked out what the ‘purpose’ was yet, but I hoped that through playing we […]
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These conversations with Iris opened my eyes to the fact that, even within the constraints of an office based performance, there were seemingly endless ways of taking the project forward. Would the performance be with or without sound? Would it […]
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Sat 16th… Took a whistle-stop trip up to Birmingham to visit a friend of mine who’s a bit of a whizz when it comes to electrics: Wanted to put my mind at rest over possible issues with speaker cables, sound […]
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Rewind… 2nd Meeting with Iris. Our next meeting was primarily talking. And I needed it! I found that everything we discussed led to further questions. How can you tell that something is dance? Does a dance need to have music? […]
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Fastforward… Heading off to a lecture at the Haywood’s ‘Wide Open School’. It’s called “Coreographies: Reception and Production of the Visual”. -Attempting the ‘all-things-dance-related’ emmersion technique… I could ceratinly do with a change of scene: I’ve been battling with technology […]
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On my last day of office observation, Iris and I had arranged to meet up to discuss plans. (Iris is a dancer who has agreed to work with me on this project and who also, very conveniently for me, works […]
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Office Observations Continued… During a lull in the office activities, I took a moment to shut my eyes. No longer being able to see the office, I became aware of its sounds. The tap tap click of a keyboard, followed […]
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Observing these office gestures closely, I became enthralled by the form and quality of these everyday movements: The tension in the fingers of hands photocopying a page from a book; The nonsensical reach from a chair pushed away from a […]
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As mentioned in my the last post, I find there something very intriguing about this office space’s inherent stage-like quality. It feels like a fitting space for a performance. With this in mind I asked to work with a dancer […]