Initial ideas
here's my initial proposal that I've mailed to my new tutor:
I would like to take some of the work I generated in my C.E.P. and move it off-line.
The work involved a collaboration between writers in an (on-line) live forum and was starting to reach a point where links were being made between new writing and existing texts from various media. I would like to continue this progression, taking myself out of the relatively isolated context of the Internet and begin to bring a physicality to text that currently only inhabits a virtual space.
I also wish to continue with the existing collaboration and invite others to participate.
I would like to continue holding my documentation at http://startingthis.blogspot.com/ where my actions and progression through the project are held up to public scrutiny and comment. I am hoping that a rehearsal process can be shaped on-line in much the same way as the original writing was.
I also wish to continue with the existing collaboration and invite others to participate.
I would like to continue holding my documentation at http://startingthis.blogspot.com/ where my actions and progression through the project are held up to public scrutiny and comment. I am hoping that a rehearsal process can be shaped on-line in much the same way as the original writing was.
I have a meeting with her soon to discuss this. In preparation for that I have begun to toy with a few ideas on possible content for a performance;
- Tell the story - Should I present a performative account of how the Finish This texts were created?
- Different voices - If I use the individual texts/posts unedited, should I credit them to their individual authors by assigning a unique 'voice' to each, do I have recordings or videos of other performers (or the real authors?) reading the lines?
- Progressing the he/she personas - Should the piece be character driven, an expansion on the personas to create a full character from what is already 'known' about them?
- Expressing something of the format - It has been suggested that I use the format of blogging (a daily item linking to others, offered up for comment) within a (durational?) performance, how do I do this?
- My own thru-line - In selecting the Finish This texts, can I forge my own route through them to tell a story that I find?
posted by Bayntonr at 11:38
1 Comments:
Rachel,
Suggestions:
**Should I present a performative account of how the Finish This texts were created?
Not as part of the performance. Have the art be itself. Explanation can come later or separately.
**If I use the individual texts/posts unedited, should I credit them to their individual authors by assigning a unique 'voice' to each, do I have recordings or videos of other performers (or the real authors?) reading the lines?
Great idea, but you don't need the real authors (who might be ineffective readers and who will be difficult to work with given their isolation from you). But the variation of sound from the different voices will be an unstated (but perceptible) "explanation" of how the texts became.
**Should the piece be character driven, an expansion on the personas to create a full character from what is already 'known' about them?
Not necessarily, tho possibly. Are the writers interesting enough to focus on? Do you know enough about them? You could, of course, invent personas--and this will free you up to create.
**It has been suggested that I use the format of blogging (a daily item linking to others, offered up for comment) within a (durational?) performance, how do I do this?
Different audio or video clips looped in the same physical location over a period of days?
Geof
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