Friday, January 29, 2010

New Documentation

While reading through Tim EtchellsCertain Fragments I came to realise that its title did in all ways reflect its contents and style. It is a fragmented bundle of essays, writings and ideas. Basically the ideal book for me, as it allows you to choose from a lot of material easily and quickly without going into too much of academic issues for fifty pages that don't give any satisfaction as it's all about an ongoing research.




'That documentation of live events is an attempt at capture, a dragging down of the ephemeral into the fossilising mud of all that is fixed and fixing'
(p71)


While strongly agreeing to that concept, recognising the ephemeral qualities of live performance, I consider it necessary to keep track of one's work, and when one's work has to do with images, its documentation must be, at least partially, made of images. The documentation of work may be a starting point of collaborations and discussion and in no way does it actually represent a piece of performance.


So here are some photos taken yesterday, that document 'What you see is what you get?'. Some fragments of the show were 'replayed' live so as to get more quality stills than what was possible during the performances in December. 
Thanks to Jeanne Mirodatos, who was extremely dextrous at shining six torches at a time and to Giacomo Natali, who had worked with me for the performance, producing its soundtrack and assisting in technical matters.



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