Saturday 5 July 2014

Androniki Marathaki, 5th July 2014

 Warming up- painting the floor with all available cells, eyes open, to wake up...then we pair up, one body rolling/touching the floor- the partner touching her, as both move across the floor... "open you r eyes, open your eyes, look at the space, look at the lines, touch with the whole palm, real pressure, if you see something that is not touching the floor, push down unto it...." establishing contact across bodies,  and across the bodies negotiating the task through space...



Now standing, only one foot or hand can be on the floor...a-symetry... testing rules - we go back to yesterday's fragments with the objects/materials, working on clarifying the physical rules given definition to the process.  As a way to understand rule making- Androniki asks each to take turns working with the object/rule - as that happens the group will follow in the negative space of the movement process - each becomes aware of the space used (or not used), this task clarifies the 'live use' of the space.   We go back to the work with the objects - refining by considering a challenge, an impossibility, a different beginning, a different place in space....  what else can develop the process?



We witness each other's process, we comment- images come to mind- I step in from my quiet corner to remind them- how the witnessing of the process is evoking.... once again we write- this time from a double perspective - she/me, we exchange rules (now the rule os from the writing, I do not work with mine) but I must use the same material -  nuanes continue to appear.