Works in progress

WORKS IN PROGRESS

– FALLOW
Inhale….exhale……inhale……exhale
Inhale (Soham)…….Exhale (Hamsah)
Inhale (This I)………Exhale (I This)
Inhale (I You) ………Exhale (You I)
Inhale (Be Here)……Exhale (Let go)

The irony after my performance Raw, in which I cycled 847 miles throughout he NRLA,  I had a bike crash in april and was forced to take 2 months rest.  So I wrote a list of all things I had not had time to do in the last ten years. I wrote a list of connections I had not had time to establish, nurture and develop. I am attempting to tackle my fear of inactivity and the coping mechanisms that I estblished over the past ten years. The rituals of activity that have meant I have had no time and space for deep connections, no paitence to do the tasks that my grandmothers and mother did/ do.

I am responding to a culture of permanent distraction, disconnection, multitasking, fear of time, pressure to go faster, unbearable boredom, disgust of the idle, and refusal of silence. I ask myself to remain “still”  in fast places, to participate in the ‘slow living movement’, to spend an hour dusting my skirting boards like my granny did and like I never have.

(SHE)(WE)(I)FIND THIS DIFFICULT
This is a new project in which I plan to develop some of the themes explored in ‘His(Her)Story repeats’ along with ideas of speaking, not speaking and being spoken for; acting, not acting and acting on behalf of.
In the development of this work I aim to interview a collection of women from different generations and cultures about their experiences, understandings, and attitudes towards acceptance/ accepting.
Alongside embarking on a week long performance lab with my sister, where we will explore the complexities of our relationship and critique Nancy Friday’s No 1 bestseller, ‘My Mother, My Self’

2007 – HIS(HER)STORY REPEATS - A solo work-in-progress, which explores memory, language and self-documentation.
This work stems initially from a professional creative collaboration residency at the Tron Glasgow 2007, between Pamela Carter, of ek Performance and myself.

2006 – FIX -  “I am not a fixer but I am going to attempt to fix”
Not restore. Not patch up. Not return to a previous state.
But fix, observe, acknowledge, maybe transform, maybe stabilise, maybe destabilise. “ FIX is a durational one to one performance. That lasts as long as the audience wants. I ask you to bring me an object you would like to see fixed. I have my toolbox, I make no promises.