Hunting

I've been looking at a lot of apartments lately - there's something so odd about looking into some one else's domaine when they're not there and trying to imagine superimposing your life on it. You see how people create a world, filled with memorabilia and mess. Something about creating an identity through objects... but then it gets wiped clean when you move on, leaving a blank slate for the next occupant. But the space bears the scars of the previous person, holes in the walls where pictures hung, odd packages of leftover food in the cupboards, a handprint on a doorframe...

How we make our mark on our immediate world, what we chose to clean up and hide and what we don't even notice as our effect.

Improvised histories

I just started to dive into a book (Taken By Surprise – A Dance Improvisation Reader) that took its time arriving – I ordered it in Feb from Wesleyan University Press in the States. The first copy never made it past customs (who ever knew improvisational dance was so dangerous) and so they sent a second copy. In the first essay, I found the following quote, which seemed apt:

"Histories typically suppress the improvisation that occurs consistently in all human actions. They also deny the improvisation of the historian who selects and interacts with all documentation of the past in an attempt to decipher changes over time. (…)What would history look like if it were to acknowledge the fact of improvisation?” – Susan Leigh Foster

Looking forward to hearing from everyone over the coming months.

Categories: dance

welcome - first post

Hello! This is the blog for square zero - the second edition, a place for participating artists to share ideas prior to our in-person collaboration in August.

The theme for our explorations in movement, performance, visuals, objects, video, art and sound will revolve around the theme of "documentation" and all that it implies.

For my first post, I found a quote to share, from Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment :

"The work is a document of the process leading to it -- a body that bares traces of its past." (Certain Fragments, p.75)

I like the idea of the final product also being a record of its process...and the play on words of "bares".