IMAGINATIVE PERFORMANCE AS METHOD
The function of imaginative performance method is twofold. While we embrace working across our differences, this method acts as a distillation tool, shedding light to which elements persist, which continue to surface in the immaterial dimension of our research, and what emerges as shared ground.
This method is employed also as an instrument to examine and reflect on how theoretical concepts are being translated into structural elements (actions, scenography, composition), as means of navigating the relationship between theory and practice.
One. word. at. a. time. *
as practice
Today we decided about not to fall into the patterns that has been theres for safety so we did not try to create something very comfortable so we did not experiment much the overall process became an eventual game of fun pleasure and extremely uncomfortable movement. Tomorrow we probably will be more free so then there will be lots of ideas and hopefully more fun unless there is something that we do so that the body cannot produce less excitement because afterall we are here to find the things thatmean more to us than art can we please focus on the space and time between ourselves humans. Laughing is a rejuvenating action that can
imply friendship fun intimacy easiness love awkwardness and perhaps access to the inner landscape of our selves thus each of us could laugh a little bit more than we used to day. To try and feel ok is challenging when the world is collapsing around us and maybe we can attempt to discover something that is more than existence yet we still need to eat pray love because then from the belly love can transform into more than movement.
17/4/26
Today the body was a vague cloud consisting of drops of juice and pain also the heart was more crushed and therefore the mind took soon much work and the result was that the desires of the body were less present and more hidden than yesterday so we could only follow what the landscape permitted. Feeling is important when someone is finding their own honest thoughts within a broad sense of existence. Perhaps the ultimate possibility is to let yourself hang in doubt and trust that gravity will do the job so I tried very hard to surrender into the vast sea of emotions and doubts hoping that eventually the group carries me under their strength of love and potential to breath in together. So next step is to focus on listening with the kindness in the centre of Arnhem which feels bit like suburb of somewhere far far from my known comfort and closer to the deep well exactly like it smells like home which actually never smells like this which implies home is always well hidden behind my eyes.