Pace Investigations No. 1
For Jocelyn
Create a performance. Repeatedly cycle through this performance over an approximate 3-hour duration of time. Each cycle of the performance loses time. As this occurs, the actions in the performance must shift. Some become unrecognizable from previous cycles through this adjustment of pace. Some become different actions all together. Some actions are abandoned, while others increasingly gain significance.
This is an exercise in identifying the essential within a piece. It is an exercise in surrender. It is an exercise that exposes the impossibility of human body, an exercise designed to fail.
Cycle 1:
1 hour 20 minutes
Cycle 2:
44 minutes
Cycle 3:
22 minutes
Cycle 4:
12 minutes 22 seconds
Cycle 5:
08 minutes 06 seconds
Cycle 6:
04 minutes 08 seconds
Cycle 7:
02 minutes 22 seconds
Cycle 8:
01 minute 01 second
performed September 5, 2015 for NiGHTSHiFT II: Coloring Coorain Live CASTLEDRONE, Boston, MA
all photos by Nabeela Vega