diary entries

Porous and Present Bodies: Site-responsive performance in an era of environmental crisis

As the world gingerly emerges from COVID lockdowns, outdoor performance is likely to become a more popular form whilst we are still unable to sit next to each other in a theatre. This emergence coincides with the impending likelihood of global warming reaching a catastrophic five or six degrees by 2100 if humanity continues with ‘business as usual’ … Read more...

In the pursuit of ma

Time flows differently in all things Japanese. In January/February 2019, I was the lucky recipient of a Saison Foundation Fellowship for Arts Managers. This is one of the very few artist-modelled residence opportunities offered to us, arts worker, non-artists. The Saison Foundation founder, Seiji Tsutsumi, owner of the Saison Group, established the foundation with his own funds in 1987. Behind the extraordinary philanthropist was a writer and poet known under the pen name Takashi Tsujii. The vision of the foundation was to reinvigorate the creative soil of Japan by opening it up to international cultural exchange in order to regain international perspective. Soft diplomacy before it became hype. True philanthropists before they became commodified. Read more...

DIARY ENTRIES: The Ethics of Intervention

According to Felix Guattari, ethics and aesthetics go hand in hand. Why ethics? Because individually, and together, we are responsible for the future. Why aesthetics? Because everything, even tradition, has to be continually reinvented. We have invited a variety of practitioners and artists to look at the notion of intervention—from body to body, through touch, for example, or between performer and audience—as it might relate to ethical questions. Read more...