Emails

I sent George this email to hash out a vague idea I had been thinking of. He responded positively! So we are going to play around with it, try out some exercises, pitch ideas when they come to us and see what happens! Here is the email.

in relation to the final piece i have been having quite specific ideas/visions about the route it will take. because we have not been together i have not been able to share these with you. the ideas have come out of the books i have read and the people i have researched. i understand that you have not been looking into the same people i have ,and i do not know who you have been researching (for example i am particularly inspired by carolee schneeman and i know you have not read her books). i have great trust in our ability to synthesise any ideas each of us have. 

the idea i have for the final performance is an installation video piece. imagine: projections on three of the walls, the centre being a video we have made and either side being scenes to add texture (for example a repetitive vision of a hand squirming in paint. the colour of the paint will be representative of the erotic insides (deep reds and purples)). the video on the centre wall will be an exploration into the explosion of the original concept; instead of the absurdity of trying to define love, it will be the absurdity of love. structurally the video will be organised into chapters (somewhat ironically demonstrating  the rigidity imposed on human emotion) i have not thought of all of the chapters but they will each explore a different idea, they will be short, introduced by writing on the screen similar to a silent film. the chapters i have thought of already are "LEAKING THE EROTIC: abject-ifying love". in which we demonstrate love 'leaking' outside of us (particular images i like are you vomiting and then a shot of the sick on the floor with candy letters in it spelling out 'i wanked over you before i kissed you'. i also like the idea of a close up of me crying and dribbling quickly intercepted with an image of me crying and dribbling red liquid). other things i played with in my head are a chapter where we show how we met but within 1 minute, or a re-creation of famous couples but with a grotesque twist to show how media sensationalises/dehumanises love. i also thought about the possibility of a necessity of physicality chapter where are bodies are involved somewhat abstractly. 

i think that there are particular activities we can do to play around with making sound ideas abstracts. i also like the idea of moving digital film interspersed with still film images. i imagine a fast jerky video, with sort of tongue-in-cheek- exposition of our relationship and others opinions to romantic love.  


the idea is sketchy and full of holes at the moment! it needs neatening out. i think what will be useful from now on is if we each keep doing three things

1) keeping a BANK OF IDEAS in which we note down images we would like to experiment with, exercises/workshops we would like to do and any questions that arise
2) start creating a VISUAL LANGUAGE by making collages, drawing pictures and taking photographs or shot film clips. this can be based on quotes, responses to the questionnaire or things we have written personally. it will help us start thinking aesthetically but also will help us play around with making literal things more abstract
3) KEEP RESEARCHING but specifically pin pointing why we are drawn in certain directions, what we can take from them and what future techniques we can play with