Inter - LOVE - rupted IMAGES July- Oct 2010

    performance week - 11th Oct - 16th Oct 2010

Substances/Textures 10/8/10

Today we talked about using substances such as sweat, blood, flour and water in each 'scene' as certain obstacles/challenges or interruptions.

 

SWEAT

In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, although it has been proposed that components of male sweat can act as pheromonal cues.[2] There is widespread belief that sweating, for example, in a sauna, helps the body to remove toxins, but the belief is without scientific support.[3] Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Sweating is increased by nervousness and nausea and decreased by cold.

The process of sweating decreases core temperature, whereas the process of evaporation decreases surface temperature.

There are two situations in which our nerves will stimulate sweat glands, making us sweat: during physical heat and emotional stress. In general, emotionally induced sweating is restricted to palms, soles, and sometimes the forehead, while physical heat-induced sweating occurs throughout the body. [10]

BLOOD

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's cells – such as nutrients and oxygen – and transports waste products away from those same cells. n vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in a liquid called blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (90% by volume),[1] and contains dissolved proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), platelets and blood cells themselves.

Blood accounts for 8% of the human body weight,[3] with an average density of approximately 1060 kg/m3, very close to pure water's density of 1000 kg/m3.[4] The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 liters (1.3 gal), composed of plasma and several kinds of cells (occasionally called corpuscles); these formed elements of the blood are erythrocytes (red blood cells), leukocytes (white blood cells), and thrombocytes (platelets). By volume, the red blood cells constitute about 45% of whole blood, the plasma about 54.3%, and white cells about 0.7%.

Whole blood (plasma and cells) exhibits non-Newtonian fluid dynamics; its flow properties are adapted to flow effectively through tiny capillary blood vessels with less resistance than plasma by itself. In addition, if all human hemoglobin were free in the plasma rather than being contained in RBCs, the circulatory fluid would be too viscous for the cardiovascular system to function effectively.

Structure Inter - LOVE - rupted.

Car up alley way

Davina carried and placed in bath

Bath pre-set  (Davinas text – audio)

Phoenix (image and ‘love’ text)

Physical Duo

Davinas ‘dog’ text

Love images  - Antony and the Johnsons – Davinas text re-visited

Phoenix in bucket – sewing organ.  Text – ‘ all we wanted was to find a new form, a new way’.

German text.

The sound scape 22/9/10

Finding sounds that compliment or contradict the images, film and bodies in the space ia a central task of mine throughout this performance making process.  I  really am enjoying this as it is something that i have not been able to do so far in other theatre subjects at La Trobe - although this process is at times very difficult and time consuming. I have been using garage band to edit down the sounds and to cut and paste the most compelling elements of each track.

The band 'The Knife' have been really instrumental in helping me to conceptualize what i wanted the sounds to be represent  - a definite move away from melodic or vocally driven music to an electronic soundscape that enhances the action on stage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On41Z4qfVE8

The industrial sounds came from my German friend and i know this will be perfect for Davina and my physical piece.

1. Heart beat Sound effect - peeling paper - Bucket text
2. Industrial  Sound - Physical piece
3. The Knife - Origins -  Love images and text
4. Antony and the Johnsons - Love images and Davinas text
5. Industrial Sound (2) my text in bucket with organ (sewing)

Beating Heart Surgery - 12/9/10 -

This video of open heart surgery will work well . I like the way you can see the hands and the tools come in and out the image - it makes me aware of how fragile we are and how reliant we are on 'others' (in this case the doctors) to keep our hearts healthy and ok.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqj1BcBpIg 

TEXT:

love is restaurant, love is watching you eat, love is wondering when i can kiss you. Love is a hospital, love is a surgical laser, love is soft tissue exposed, love is the surprise of your skin, love finds me out...

If you put your feet into a really hot bucket of water, you can hear your heart beat in your toes.

When i met you i was moving like a blind arrow shot in a time of need. I did not want to seal myself against life. What to make of all these fragments?  Time has been here before...History has had you ....and me.

LOVE INTERRUPTS MY LIFE

Reflection (pre show)

With a month of the rehearsal process left the piece is definitely starting to take shape. The 'world' Davina and I seem to be creating is one where love gets  - interrupted-  through a series of miscommunications.

In taking on a theme as broad as 'LOVE' we seem to be adding complexity through negotiating a series of 'events' that reflect our different interpretation of the theme.

I think in embracing these differences we will make the piece more engaging and hopefully create a 'moving' piece of work.

I guess where I would like to go from here is to revisit some of the earlier ideas about 'representation' and 'hyper realism' - to infuse the piece inter textually. Multimedia was central to our original thoughts on creating this work as was themes  of cultural jamming.

I hope to make a piece of work that affects, engages and moves. I want to confront, inspire and open spaces for dialogue , thought provocation and reflection