TEMPERANCE HALL, 2025
Spiritual Alignment
as it should be and is supposed to be
perfect chair rabbit hole
the next steps were obvious
octave shifts inspired by whitney houston
Canon as metaphor for ‘rupture as canon into outer space’
Video Credit: James Wright / NON Studio.
Notes:
This work had nothing to do with my residency.
I made it because there was an outcome component of the front studio residency. It was on the 2nd of November. I didnt mind there was an outcome… I love outcomes… and I could have done my outcome later... but why do that to myself... i wanted to sleep…at home in my bed.. even just for a couple of days…
the research i did in the studio is subterranean, still unfolding, so process no outcome - being in my body post-surgery and the shifts that happened post-
But to remain in fidelity to my time at the hall & to take its basic principals into an outcome showing I tried to make something without impeeding too much on my studio time-- i was going to do a stretch class but I was like maybe I’ll just film some improvisations and see what comes up. i didnt get past aligning the camera on the tripod. it took me almost 15 minutes to get the alignment just as it should be and is supposed to be to be perfect for my shot for my improvisationing. sadly i wanted to make live performance not a film so i wanted to figure out how you align a camera via performance medium babes— this took me down a lil chair rabbit hole n the next steps were obvious. I packed up and went home and slept for a few days. I like this dramaturgy.... it is a dramaturgy i like... octave shifts like whitney houston. canon as metaphor for “rupture as canon into outerspace” & hanging with whitney. ... it was fun...
im really trying not to laugh in that video ^^... especially in the beginning so sometimes when my mouth is open its coz im trying not to laugh.... I'm not very good at stopping myself from laughing and i didnt mind if this happened uncontrollably as a rupture in the work but it didnt happen... i think i got all my laughs out showing Will the previous day...
yeah like mentioned what i was going to do for my residency outcome showing was I was going to take you through stretches coz mostly i have been stretching.... like my forearms... my wrists, my ankles... calves... like just in and of itself every day for a couple of hours... then i would repeat cezanne "the landscape thinks itself in me and i am its consciousness" in my head over and over and let things come to me and maybe id turn to maurice merleau ponty and then put that down coz cezanne was all i needed.. not the theory... "the landscape thinks itself in me and i am its consciousness" was enough...
lots more happened in that room and it was really cool but what was really cool was just like being in my body every day new body post-surgery in and of itself in and of itself - just in and of itself, as if for the very first time each time- not knowing what a body is, what a body can do, what a studio is, what a practice is .... what light might do to my perceptual system... or texture of the wood.. ... these moments would ruin me —the “subject" /me…. —would disappear for moments at a time coz i was so full of the stimulus of the world… destroyed by house light, destroyed by shade of shadow, destroyed by wind through crack in window..
#Stretches and #Cezanne….
The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Thank you Will and Anna <333 v v much!! 😭