Here’s a summary of my thoughts whilst on the train to Liverpool yesterday: All in all it’s a relief to take off the big heavy coat of other stuff that needs doing all the time and spend a week immersed in creativity and with creative
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the strongest event of the day was the fact that I was interrogated and tortured by Daisy and Mat. As a witness, I played the role of mute, and so had to hand write my answers to their questions, but they continued to
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Our performance: For more on our performance, see Caroline’s Day4 page Regarding our ‘gestapo’ style interrogations… The power dynamic between witnesses and interrogators is very interesting to me. The guy said at the beginning “If someone tells you that something is black,
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Today at the crime scene house Daisy heard a “godawful racket” while I participated in a seance for three dead men. It was the same event. In Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, conflicting accounts of a rape and murder are given by four people, one of whom
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After we returned from the pub to the halls, we made this from day 3’s audio loops: (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page) For today’s performance we tried to recreate the “open mic
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Live Archives Workshops
Day 4 – 05.04.07
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