27/03/19 Luminary Lecture, Kali Chandrasegaram

Kali was great, he's a brilliant person. I just don't think this was the right thing for me personally. I thought I'd take a chance but I didn't enjoy the dancing at all. 
I thought he was so lovely that I'd really like it but I hated it. Watching choreographed movement is invigorating and infectious, it ziplines to your adrenaline centre and zings you up. Unfortunately, the spoken parts of dance performances just slide them straight into cringe, for me. 
Kali works with people experiencing grief and has been researching the stages of grief since his father passed away. It is very sad and I am not a robot I understand the pain of this. However, it did remind me of 'Father!' 

It was the tone of the spoken word parts and hand gestures. 
Someone said once that if people are laughing because they are uncomfortable- it is insecurity within them. Maybe I am insecure about movement and releasing truths. 

I am involved in a group with Rosa Johan Uddoh with the uni, in her Arty Sports Club. She handed out literature for us to read. An article about girls unable to throw and Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic which is life changing.

 

My current work involves bringing the body into my practice, which seems to be playing with found materials like wood. I have been working with boundaries and rules. The body brings chaos to that way of thinking and it should. Containment is not possible so it should not be the goal. I guess I can see that in dance. 
I did go to a spoken word night afterward and I will take part in that in the future as I think it has the aspects of what I want to work on, while not being a completely foreign language as performance art and dance are. 

Notes:

The presentation brought home another aspect of how I like to present work- I am very fussy about what is near my work. During the Bridewellopening someone put a can of beer near a painting and it annoyed me. I wasn't fuming about it but it irked me how foreign things will change how you read work. I think it's since reading Ways of seeing.

I am conscious of the TV being surrounded by a different backdrop to everyone else. How none of us are seeing the same thing or having similar experiences while viewing these things. When someone's work is close to mine it involves my work. 
When Kali was dancing his most emotional dance, he did it in front of a projection of the computer desktop. So text and text boxes covered his face and body. The VLC logo is in all of my photos. IT had a massive effect and I am realising I take that stuff super seriously. 

Thought it might be worth trying out the glitch panoramic thing I love doing. I thought I might do this to produce something to then go onto paint.