Collaboration – further thoughts.

The collaboration with Alun is remote right now. We communicate each day through this blog or by text or email having decided at the start of the week that we did not need to meet up this week in order to progress METRON.
He is working on other projects and with sound editing the recordings he made in the installation at the week-end of his RUN video soundtrack with the sounds from my performance, MINE. I am working in my studio producing new visual work – I have started on a new photographic series, NITTYGRITTY and on drawings to take into the gallery at the week-end as part of the next performance YOURS.
We are both really busy but know we can trust that we will segue well together once back in the space at the week-end.
I am really looking forward to hearing what Alun has been doing with the sound-tracks.
It feels to me as though a potentially rich new seam has been opened for both our works by the mixing of the sounds from our individual works. I hope that we can develop this by co-producing other sounds to mix into the piece and perhaps by inviting other artists or musicians to take it on and work with it.
We intend that at the week-end we can make both the blog and the sound-tracks available to the audience and I am planning to take in a couple Mac powerbooks and screens so that they can have a play with the sound.
One aspect of collaboration that wasn’t predictable before we began METRON is with the audience. Alun got them involved in sharing in the large drawing on Days One and Two and I have been intrigued and informed by the questions I was asked by members of the audience whilst I was performing MINE. Conversations, especially with artists Pam Foley and Tamas Malomvolgyi were challenging and prompted me to ask questions around memory and the reliability of memory as well as the trust implied in the relationship between artist and viewer.