Day (10) - K (2)

My first experience with intense traffic, and delayed buses took place today. And I am unconsciously enjoying this little imperfect process that seems to take place beneath the perfection of the order of things here.
Eleonora got even more sick if that is possible, and she is sorely missed. Rike left. And Nora joined.
The discussion still ongoing on whether or not to produce something or present something in the open house.
What I understood that there is a general agreement somehow, that everyone will take the artistic choice to present what s/he wants and then join in jamming session of twenty minutes. The enduring feature will be the rearranging of the space. That seems to a performance strategy that appeals to everyone.
Shawn and Thomas starting jamming together, Thomas on electric guitar and Shawn working on the sonic environment as a whole.
An interesting development was when Lillibeth and Tania decided to join Shawn and Thomas. While Tania joined standing, Lillibeth preferred to lie down.
But then Tania and Lillibeth chose to work on their research (they are invited to elaborate on that here) as a way to engage with the space. And they kept asking for some "man" to volunteer. Repeating the statement "We need a man", gave a little gender twist for the process. When no one (man that is) volunteered, they decided to impersonate the role of male interviewee, with Lillibeth as the alleged "male interviewee". They assumed a corner and went on their interview.
More deconstruction of tables took place till they are just flat boards, then reconstructing them around an interesting arrangement of cushions. Nora then decided to be inserted in this collage of table boards and cushions making her look like an installation.
Hooman gave a new meaning to cushion arrangement when he started to arrange them outside the space altogether.
Nora then released herself from the chair-table installation and took over one mic and decided to experiment with swinging it over the floor. She then took things further by passing the mic over a cushion case over and over.
A series of collapses took place, with Hooman throwing chairs and table boards around, somehow driven by a certain build up of things.
Loan too seemed to be engaged on a very physical level with the chairs and table board. Trying to "figure" them out, in a literal sense. In kind of experiment where she is trying to define or understand her relationship with and to them.
Hooman's new cushion arrangement took the shape of a pathway of cushions all the way out to the garden. Nora was enticed to follow that path. Hooman later explained that he was inspired by Eleonora's mention of the image of "lines", how things and people come coming to her in the shape of lines.
Thomas was peacefully playing his guitar all the while.
Hooman then decided to lay down on one table board and start blowing into a mic, then to roll over across the table board, with an accompanying sound of an empty plastic water bottle being hit against a mic by Nora.
The question remains "what should we do now?"
And I was asked what do I think and said what I thought honestly, that there despite the intentional dissonance, everyone inevitably picked up on the energy of the other and started reacting to that.
There was, however, another problem which was how to place the audience?
Should the audience sit on the outside, the inside, outside and inside. The final decision was that the audiences will be seated inside the space.
Then the piece was timed to be half an hour, with an alarm clock being the signal for the termination of the piece. The idea of mobile phones that were used in the previous performance was dismissed as the process now is developed differently.
At this point Thomas brought up the question of content, a content that connects people together, a certain kind of common idea that people can relate to, grab on to in a way. To which Hooman replied that the need for an idea to connect would then alter the whole process of "improvised actions" that was taking place. Shawn very kindly mediated this debate, suggesting that its not a conceptual strategy or a concrete concept, its more like a connective practice, action that would ensure or make the individuals involved in the process more attuned in a way.
The suggestion then was that Lillibeth should assume that role or function, the interviewer, who could ask the artists or the audience, and in that connect the different processes and the people involved in it.