Sedated By A Brick

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stiffkey, norfolk

“The idea of murder frequently evokes the idea of sea and seafarers. No precise image of sea and seafarers may at once spring to mind: it is rather that Murder surges over our thought in breakers of emotion. If we suppose seaports to be theatre of recurrent crimes, then the explanation is simple and need not detain us; but the chronicles are numberless from which we learn that the murderer was a man of the sea – either in reality or imagination – and if the latter, then crime will have less affinity with the sea.”  Jean Genet Querelle of Brest

images courtesy of lisa furness

the feel of reverse – some questions about time as betrayed in performance

Manipulating ‘time’ has become one of the challenges of creating If Destroyed Still True. As part of the Interval open weekend at Interval, 31 College Green, we recently performed a epi-prologue to the piece that unwound key motifs and placed them in a reverse sequence. At midnight, audience, gathered by the door, met a stranger. This stranger, then moving backwards, as if in reverse, began to guide them, by a single light into the darkness.

Some questions:

does time get quicker before you die? How does this affect the pulse of the awakening moments, in our piece? In the midnight showing, the natural flopping of the freshly killed body is inverted and the performer must move from relaxed to tense. All of our bodies movements are inverted, quite often contradicting the operations of the body.

Are our perceptions of time based on experience? “how immortal we are when we are young” : what is a lifetime? Can our images show the slow drawn out nature of someone who has lived forever alongside someone who is just experiencing it for the first time? Are there pallindromic figures in the images we create?

Our senses operate in logarithmic fashion too: the heavier an object the less perception of difference there is. does this affect our perception of time? Are we less occupied with time the older it is to us.

Does time get quicker when you’re exhilirated?

Is the return leg quicker than the outward journey? If we repeat actions,

how do we show the aspect of time when novelty is wearing thin? Is there a breakdown of repetition in the piece? –Does repetition degrade? Can repetition make us disappear ?

We’ve always thought about asking the question “sex, death or kittens?” at post-show discussions, just because we wanted a fresh perspective on the ideas in the show.

Well colour us surprised when we went to the show “Famous Last Words,” an interactive game-show in a caravan and were instantly confronted with the question “Which is more important to you: Sex or Death?”

Then this morning I am reading Victoria Coren’s excellent column in the Observer and what should she do but ask Kanye West to try and clarify which is cooler, “Kittens or life insurance?”

Who knew kittens, sex and death featured so prominently in lines of enquiry?

Yes, that’s right, SBAB are performing as part of Scratxe #5 at Factoria Del Fuegos in Vitoria-Gaistez, Spain!

We’ll be travelling out in November to give the Spaniards a taste of our little piece of quirk. Let’s hope they enjoy it.

Now the rock is showing the world

Now the rock will show the world what is what



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