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preparation for filming THANK YOU @beejoi for making me look like the other head

I don’t think this one will make it into the next manifestation.

Footage playing with my plaster head.

Exciting material research with https://www.janinestaehlin.com.

We won't make the final manifestation for the next showing on November 13th for !HOTMESS! https://elasticarts.org/events/hot-mess-2 but really looking forward to continuing the development of the costume afterwards. THANK YOU JANINE for your support!!

more experiments

sketching in situ reflection upon reflection

Practise-head hallway take one: Notes on movement, gravity and scene:

Appearing and disappearing from doors

moments of dropping upwards,

Exploring arms hands legs feet connectivity

Can I make the fast part faster? unnaturally speedy and jumpy. both legs and arms should leave the floor. Moments of out of control

Try other camera angles- less ceiling more floor - although the empty space does add a strange tension

Plaster cast or death mask. Small experiments with self and object. How to move your head. how to hold yourself as object.

Notes from Dana Iova-Koga mentoring sessions.

Contexture. Exercises in using the domestic environment to create movement.

c.April 2020

: Superman on arm of the couch : Going upstairs on all fours like a dog. : Holding both doorknobs, using them as a partner to move with : Hanging upside down on a couch : climbing on kitchen counter like : a cat : squatting more, reaching more, : hanging over a picnic table and tractioning the spine : part cat, part bear. and excited by the prompt to refresh relationship to this space I’m spending so much time in : using the pelvic list to go down the stairs : Giving your weight to the trees : crawling under table with 2 - 3 - 4 contacts : Deep squatting with back against a wall : Hanging bar in back yard, Lifting rocks, tree for hanging, balance beam walking, stairs : trying to tickle a hummingbird : tug of war with the dog : picking up pine cones : pelvic list on stairs, walking up and down stairs in many different ways on all fours : Various squating at the toilet :) :archcontexture : crawlup door jam into handstand : It was a great reminder to see our homes like children again!

#research #contexture #thinkingtogether

Re-writing the desk. Shifting postures and positions (post 1 of short clips of process) c. August 2020.

Now that I have felt the tables turning, I have great respect for the work and effort of the lower body and how it supports me to move through the world.

Within the process there are always these moments of perception shift- however small. They are difficult to predict. Find them, freeze them play with the tiny nuances of those moments.

#videosketch