Kate Bush and remembering lyrics well enough so you don’t have to mouth them

Out on the windy windy moors we roll and fall in deep. You had a temper like my jealousy too hard to greedy. How could you leave me when I needed to possess you I hated you I love you too. Bad dreams in the night, you told me I was going to do this right, leave behind my Wuthering Wuthering Wuthering Heights, Heathcliffe, it’s me I’m Cathy I’ve come home now so cold let me into your window, Heathcliffe, it’s me I’m Cathy I’ve come home now so cold let me into your window. Ooh I get tired I get lonely on the other side from you, I sigh a lot, I find a lot hmmm hmmm without you, I’m coming back now cruel Heathcliffe my wandering my only hmmm hmmm. Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm in the night. I’m coming back to decide to put it right, I’m coming home to Wuthering Wuthering Wuthering Heights, Heathcliffe, it’s me I’m Cathy I’ve come home now so cold let me into your window, Heathcliffe, it’s me I’m Cathy I’ve come home now so cold let me into your window. Ooh, let me have it, let me have your soul away, oooh let me have it let me have your soul away. You know it’s me. I’m Cathy…..

For the performance I needed to learn the lyrics to this song properly.

I love America and America loves me

I talk about this image and about the fact that Joseph Beuys isn’t really being attacked by a wild and vicious coyote.

It’s been a while since I saw the footage of I love America and America loves me so I’m not entirely convinced that what I say during that section of the performance is at all accurate.

Later on in the performance I’ll be talking about the fact that Joseph Beuys’ made a pop record in 1982 and I’ll be trying to link this with some text about Kate Bush, artists’ processes, the planting of trees and politics. But while I’m doing this I’ll be more worried about my Wuthering Heights dance which I do shortly after this second bit of Jospeh Beuys text. I think I need to be more ‘in the moment’…..

Friday 11th November

The intersection of live art practice with politics, religion, the post-religious sensibility, the techno-culture, post-humanism, gender issues, globalisation, celebrity culture, contemporary hysteria This  may all be tangled in here somewhere!

Is it about presence, there is a lot written about presence……

Next week will focus on;

Theatricality in performance art  – live art  – the drama of performance

 

Thursday 10th November

Thinking about;

Classical art, nude, sheets, drapery on body.

Humour

Conceptual sculpture

Wednesday 9th November

HOLES /CIRCLES – IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DRAW A CIRCLE

 1.SEX BIRTH – IN OUT

2. BALL BALLOON MELON PONEGRANITE TEAPOT TEACUP MOON HOLE IN THE TABLE MAPPED OUT CIRCLE ON THE FLOOR

woman animal woman animal woman animal

life – cycle, month cycle, surreal thought process, stream of conscience, circular thinking

Make a physical slapstick routine based on giving birth  – objects coming out of holes

Tuesday 8th November 2011

I made a work called Slow Thinking that was seen in public twice and these showings were different pieces in themselves. This work was unfinished, did not find itself and I want to drag in the stuff that seems important for the base of this new work.

From Before;

I NEED THE NATURE WHAT IS THE NATURE IS IT INFANTIZATION MOVING TO THE COUNTRY ADMIRING THE WILDLIFE MAKING A CUP OF TEA SAYING THE SAME THING IN DIFFERENT WAYS JUST GOT TO SAY THIS AGAIN… AGAIN ARE THESE IMAGES ON THE EDGE OF WOMEN ON THE EDGE OH NO NOT THAT ANYTHING BUT THAT THERE IS A WHITE DRESS A GORILLA EXPERT NOT THE NINE O’CLOCK NEWS NUDITY POMEGRANATE NAKED MELON HAMMER CASUAL CHATTY ARE WE ON NOW TABLE WITH THE WHOLE BIG ENOUGH TO SQUEEZE THROUGH MOON PROUST KINDNESS RED SWIM SUIT 1940’S IRONY OLD WOMAN UNDRESS LINE HORSE BUCKET BUNNIES OFF HULK TEA LEG UP RED BIRD BUNIES CIRCLE CHILDHOOD SCRATCHY RABBITS AND BEARS KICK JACKET FUR JACKET FIGHT FISH ON STICK BALLOON UP TREE HEAD PHONES AND DANCE IN A TABLE

 

 

Monday 7th November 2011

One starting point for this project will investigate how as humans we need each other in a number of ways. Early ideas are around the premis of a two-handed interview where the interviewer is caught in the action/activity of the interviewee – à la that with a marathon runner, where the interviewer has to jog alongside the runner to hold their conversation. I would perform certain physical activities, balancing on a gym-ball, whilst  Cathy asks questions with a mic. The involvement of the interviewer would become more intrinsic as the work progressed, for example Cathy might have to wedge her foot under the ball to stop me from falling off. This interest in how we understand ourselves in relation to how we support/help/save people around us is a recurring theme – most prominent in the performance (and subsequent short videowork) ‘… White’, where I played the role of a magician’s assistant (a previous vocation) to an absent conjuror; having to carry on regardless and present moments of illusion and transformation from everyday materials.