Jerwood Bank 2007

Our second showing, I was less nervous. I went second… I usually wait to be the last one to show my material. I really enjoined this sharing. I didn t expect such a rich afternoon. My portrait has changed since I last showed it . The tasks and the feed back Sarah and Deb gave me open up new windows, new possibilities to devop the portrait. I forced myself to use the text as a structure to push myself with speed and to give a different tone and shape to the material I had. The time restriction and the search of an alter ego the expressive legs (as Sue suggested) represented all useful elements to play with. It s still a long way to go and the project it s getting to an end. It would be nice if we could have an extra week to work on it!!!

Roberta filmed on the 4th September.
Duration: 38 seconds

Portrait,
a window into the soul of the person:
beginning to question
who am I?
what do I want to comunicate?
emotions
emotion have a direction, a logic of their own
to early to find an answer
don’t ask yourself to many questions
stuck things up,
moments
leave them resting to eventually go back to them
play with different physicality

……..exciting journey!!!!!

Meeting Jonathan Cole. I was completely engaged and touched by the subject so deep related to what we are doing!
When you realize how extraordinary people can be, you immediately feel incredibly small.

Then you find a motivation within your sense of failure, a emotional strength that encourages you to keep going.

Five days ago I wrote the above.
Didn’t publish it. Didn’t blog since. It s a perfect time to recover this short “fragment of thought” having had a really bad day!!!
(I was working on text to use it as a structure in relation to one of my movement. It didn’t really work when on the top of the text I was encouraged to add an extra code).

Someone said:”Restriction tend to make for interesting work.”
I deeply believe it ;that ’s one of the reason why I spent the all day struggling with my task.

……because my computer froze i could not publish the following (6/10 08 2007):

The task we have been given so far have opened up a window on duration of movement.

Around tuesday: (FIRST TASK) I closed my eyes and dipped my head and body into a sea of events eventually finding 8 of them short fragments/thought/idea numbering them and combine them with the notes of a musical score.
Around thurday: (SECOND TASK) I closed my eyes and dipped my head and body into a similar but not quite, sea of events, eventually finding one event, a movement originating from a reaction to something. After splitting it into fragments I shuffled them around and combined them with the note of a musical score.

Long process of struggling to fit the movement to the structure, struggling to keep the “in between” movement alive, struggling to avoid the movement to become mechanical, spending a long time refining the movement, figuring out what it was exactly , trying to be as detailed/true as possible.
Found the first task more difficult then the second one, didn’ t manage to get to the end of the musical score, didn’ t allowed myself to any “artistic licence”, thought I was not fast enough to fit the movement to the given structure, learned an interesting way to create material or extend a movement/action.
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7 days into the process: lots of information.
Income-outcome:
Excitement-exaustion.
Internal-external.
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Roberta’s clip from the 9th August. 
Duration: 16 seconds