Instructions for Actions within a Work found in the back of Greek Mythology

 

Questions:
What is lost? Can it be remembered?
Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
Are there people who surprisingly come to mind?
Location: Judith E Wilson Studio
Time: Monday 11th February 2008 10am- 12midday & 2pm - 4pm

Each of the following categories to be freely available -as material for 
 activity- throughout the session. Each category must be engaged with,
even if only partly. Some may last, or hold, more or less than others.
We will each be doing them, with probable co-interruptions and overlaps.

I think there is no need for any stipulations about eating, drinking,
smoking or the toilet: it happens when it does. But we do not speak to
each other at all, even to say hello, except under the provisions of 1.
Writing is permitted, but only as an action within the work: no notes
for future reference, no recording of any kind
When it ends at 4, we can perhaps humanly speak to one another again for a bit!

1. NOISE
there will be microphones, there will be sound sources such as CDs.
Please add to these with:
) music / noise on CD or minidisc
) objects to manipulate & amplify through the microphone or not
) one piece of a learnt text (kept in your head: this, or words from
this, are the only intelligible words you may utter)

2. Finding a voice.
there is always a choice . . .
This is an exercise about selection: throughout the duration of the
session, please elect 4 things which you would like to utter; yet the
terms of the exercise prohibit you from actually speaking, so the words
or phrases which you would most like to utter, and which you must
remember exactly -paying strict attention to word order and intonation-
must be translated in to noiseless actions. Make each action distinct
and specific to the unutterable words/phrase(s), existing in its own FRAME.

3. 7 speeds.
Of bodily movement. The only rule is that they are identifiably distinct.

4. Uneven clothing.
Perhaps one boot is much tighter than the other, or maybe there are
cords that bind a section of the body, or perhaps a sense is censored.
Also, at least one item of clothing which is either too big or too small.

5. Cleaning.
Either: an object to clean and an object to clean it.
'Object' may be metaphysical, or physical, living or dead, or even an
abstract notion. The object to clean it is tangible and visible.

6. Memory / Locations / Time.
7 locations which are designated on the way to the studio. One location
must be an identifiable place between the station and the studio. Other
locations could be unreachable, notional, global, cosmic, microscopic etc.

Let me know somehow what you think about this.
:Jeremy