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For all my being worried about the performance meeting it went really well. It was fun and a little sacriligious, as you would expect a performance workshop would be at the site of Rabin's murder on the Hebrew commemoration date. I never knew that children stood guard over the monument- you certainly learn something new every day.
I'm reading over the material that Adi (the person I'm collaborating with*) has sent me. This is one more thing that is different from art school. At school, if you take the teachers exercise in an entirely different direction that's a good thing- you're being fresh and creative. When you're working with someone else, you can't do that so much. I've been riffing off of general ideas lately, rather than sticking to specific themes in her writing, and while we've achieved some good moments doing exercises together we haven't been making a lot of progress in terms of content because it's always new. There's also a big difference between creating one visual moment- a sculpture that exists in a room but doesn't move- and creating a series of movements that change and are also unpredictable, since I'm not directing her in the space. "Think of the space as a trap you're building- if you want me to act in a certain way, you need to design the space so that it invites me to do that. It needs to come from the material." she tells me. It's hard, I'm not used to thinking about space and material like this.
It's also fricking hard to find the time to work on new objects while working two jobs. Three more weeks and then I'll be in my new place with its lovely large and unused balcony...
*She sends me texts, I send her objects, she does actions with the objects, sometimes I join her, wash rinse repeat. She's a cool person, has a good head on her shoulders.
I'm reading over the material that Adi (the person I'm collaborating with*) has sent me. This is one more thing that is different from art school. At school, if you take the teachers exercise in an entirely different direction that's a good thing- you're being fresh and creative. When you're working with someone else, you can't do that so much. I've been riffing off of general ideas lately, rather than sticking to specific themes in her writing, and while we've achieved some good moments doing exercises together we haven't been making a lot of progress in terms of content because it's always new. There's also a big difference between creating one visual moment- a sculpture that exists in a room but doesn't move- and creating a series of movements that change and are also unpredictable, since I'm not directing her in the space. "Think of the space as a trap you're building- if you want me to act in a certain way, you need to design the space so that it invites me to do that. It needs to come from the material." she tells me. It's hard, I'm not used to thinking about space and material like this.
It's also fricking hard to find the time to work on new objects while working two jobs. Three more weeks and then I'll be in my new place with its lovely large and unused balcony...
*She sends me texts, I send her objects, she does actions with the objects, sometimes I join her, wash rinse repeat. She's a cool person, has a good head on her shoulders.