Two practitioners respond to SLANT’s second event, Forms in Flux.
Paul Ingram
If a text for performance isn’t just a sequence of words to be read from start to finish, what else can it be?
Some possible answers suggested by Forms in Flux:
1. A system, open or closed.
2. A set of instructions, for the performer or the audience.
3. A single gesture, performed deliberately, with concentrated intensity.
4. Fragments, arranged and rearranged, art as purposeful purposelessness.
5. The process of accretion.
6. The spectacle of destruction.
7. Nothing at all.
8. A single gesture, performed deliberately, with concentrated intensity, again.
9. FREE PLAY
10. The voice of human resources, repurposed.
11. A body, made to dance, manipulating text.
12. A gate, rejected for an internship.
13. A living thing, eating itself!
14. An environment, to enter or leave.
15. Interference.
Pete Bennett
Paul Ingram is an Associate Research Fellow in the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London. His articles have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Dada/Surrealism and Historical Materialism. Flat Earth, a collection of poetry, was published by Contraband Books.
Pete Bennett is a musician, designer, artist and lecturer interested in improvisation, sketching, generative processes and creativity.
www.peteinfo.com
All photos of artists and their work are by Suzi Corker.
