tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561305336870783054.post561486433505486050..comments2014-09-19T14:18:03.094-07:00Comments on visiting studios: Carali McCallLouise Colbournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03154285348518441319noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561305336870783054.post-29244788872146874912011-04-13T02:00:56.288-07:002011-04-13T02:00:56.288-07:00I do feel restricted from physical limits of my bo...I do feel restricted from physical limits of my body, and working collaboratively heightens this awareness, while working in darkness accesses a more responsive situation to sound, and to a notion that there is a porous boundary between us. <br /><br />Through the senses, the body has a particular structure to act between subject and object. Although the body is both object (for others) and a lived reality (for the subject), it is never simply object or simply subject. Our bodies relate, engage, respond and are influenced by our surroundings.(Grosz, 1994: 87)<br /><br />Thinking about drawing while drawing, enables me to consider how my body acts as an instrument to perceive the corporeal world whilst also being part of it. I think it is through the embodied mind in which determine its boundaries and limitations. And it is this condition that underpins my practice. <br /><br />Did I find that I was more focused on my physical experience bounded by the limits of the body? Yes, the 'coach' voice eventually through exhaustion became internal in my world. I think Sam, your question of authorship is interesting, particularly in performance, if our body bases all knowledge of 'how' it experiences the world and are intertwined with other things. And by describing these experiences either individually or collaborative extends the idea and notion of identity. <br /><br /><br />Re: Repetition. Some thoughts...<br /><br />There is an indefinable echo or doubling that occurs in the sharing of the space during a performance. The sense of duration can also be experienced as stretched and limitless while also ruptured and discontinuous. It functions simultaneously as singular, unified and whole, as well as in specific fragments and multiplicitous proliferation (Grosz, 1999: 17). <br /><br />A repetitive action during live performances can explore the sense of duration while playing with the temporal dimensions – the familiar turns unfamiliar, chance, uncertainty – to perhaps identify how something so similar is connected to our own unique experiences.Carali McCallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762798193150646110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561305336870783054.post-28389058150869586392011-04-13T01:59:32.259-07:002011-04-13T01:59:32.259-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Carali McCallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762798193150646110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561305336870783054.post-55268079835696100822011-04-08T03:30:04.108-07:002011-04-08T03:30:04.108-07:00Interesting question/comment from Sam. Carali'...Interesting question/comment from Sam. Carali's performance was a very focused and intimate experience. It was staged in pitch darkness so the sound was therefore intensified, as was our own physical presence in the room and our awareness of one-another. It's interesting to notice how depriving one or more senses will intensify the others. <br />Jacquie Utley wrote to me about the studio visit and said:<br />'What I found particularly fascinating about Carali work was the visual absence of the body although with the sound and motion the body was very much present- which seemed to create especially in the two performance video pieces both a push and pull at the same time which brought a visibility to that space'.<br />Jacquie was also interested in the ideas about repetition in Carali's work that we talked about during the visit...Louise Colbournehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154285348518441319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561305336870783054.post-87223784333000157642011-03-29T05:56:11.732-07:002011-03-29T05:56:11.732-07:00HI Carali, I'm interested in to what extent ou...HI Carali, I'm interested in to what extent our bodies define our experience of self, with particular regard to collaboration, co-action, group dynamics etc, and was interested to hear your thoughts on the piece you described where you were being 'coached' to jump higher. Did you find that you were more focused in on your physical experience bounded by the limits of the body, or did the 'coach' voice take on some qualities of your interior Will. I am particularly thinking of research in neuro science which is finding that often our sense of authorship or of having willed an action are miss founded.<br />I would agree that any investigation into the Body needs to look into it via a non-visual medium such as you suggest with sound. Deprived of visual information, the interior architecture of the body is very different from its observed form.<br />I liked your studio visit.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10530581828602299121noreply@blogger.com