On Tuesday, we performed a twenty minute workshop which Helena observed and then gave us feedback on what we had shown. Here are our separate response to the activities we performed.
George
1. Walk into the room, sit down
You came in quickly, but as always, loudly, banging the door. Your head started down but you lifted it quickly, smiling. Your walk was bouncy, the hair flopping slightly. You instantly get yourself comfy, removing clothes and shoes, as always, making yourself a bit too much at home.
2. Kissing
Your lips are soft and delicate. Cold. They aren't as dry as I had expected, maybe you've used chap stick this morning. As we went into the kiss I felt nervous, watched. But i placed one hand on your cheek, almost to hide what we were doing, to try and make it ours completely. Mid-way I forgot momentarily that we were being watched, but remembered again and stopped the kiss early.
3. Taking off item of clothing
You were quick, rapid, emotionless, almost ashamed. You caught my eye quickly, but then looked away, even more quickly. Your cheeks were burning, growing in redness, maybe growing in fear. the door became of interest to you, you couldn't tear your eyes away from it. and your body was slightly angled in it's direction. I think I felt a bit sorry for you. I hate to see you worried.
Chloe
1. Walk into the room, sit down
You are conscious of being watched, I can tell. The slight lick of the lip, uncertain. Even as you relax back into the chair it's forced. You are not frowning. Your gaze consciously neutral.
When you fiddled with your buttons there was a sweet urgency in you.
You are always thoughtful about closing doors.
2. Kissing
Our lips are shaking because we are not a couple who are used to kissing in the eyes of just one other person. I always try to determine whether the kiss is more on the site of your body or mine.
Today it is firmer than normal, caught in an almost affectionless limbo midway.
Today it feels like we do not own the kiss. I do not picture the plush reds I normally can, instead it is matt purple, not ugly but not alive.
3. Taking off item of clothing
You are fumbling with an urgency not normally associated with undressing. Your body without trousers is not that of a lover but a clown.
Your belt was an annoyance, you almost frowned in motion.
Even though I see you undress almost at least twice a day, today it seems alien in its coldness. maybe because we don't look at each other, if we did we'd probably laugh.
Helena's two key pieces of feedback were;
1. What do you want from your audience? How do you want them to feel?
This is one question we've had to constantly address but are yet to answer. But I think at the minute this is our biggest question. We will be playing with this next Tuesday at the Scratch performance.
2. Get a balance of the outside world as well as the nitty-gritty intimacies.
I think this comment was also in relation to the audience. We must not shut the spectators out of our world. We must invite them in and convince them, through our art, to stay, stay a while, stick around awhile...
After reading these responses it also became apparent to us that we have to now find away of using what they teach us. It has been useful to start studying the everyday, mundane actions, to analyse those things we usually take fore granted. But we now have to find a way of using our findings, or else they are useless. Maybe we should attempt to create another workshop to help us process and develop this short descriptions of the everyday.
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