talking about all this durational stuff today has really made me think.
iv not done much durational stuff, and the stuff i have done i have always found quite hard.
In choreographic lab we were given a durational exercise and i decided to repeat the same score for half an hour. one of the movements in this score was drawing a line on the floor with my finger. By then end of it the end of my finger had gone numb and started to hurt.
I wonder what would have happened if i had done it for a whole day, or more! I have seen performances where dancers danced with paint on paper and then sold the painting afterwards but what if a durational movement piece took place on paper. i mean like a really long durational piece. soon the paper would wear and you might even draw blood as i am sure my finger would have bled if i had done that score for long enough. What would be left on the paper? It would be like a recording of the performance.
2 comments:
Lauren
Your thoughts about paper make me think about the very long tradition of developing work for paper BECAUSE of its ephemerality and fragility. There is something about the juxtaposition of duration with transience that is fascinating ...
i see what you mean, I suppose if you did want it to last it could be done on see through plastic but then it wouldnt have that lovely juxtaposition.
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