I want to make theatre, but not be theatre. I want to make exhibition but not be an exhibitionist – nor to be an exhibit. I want to create privacy in the public and yet take part in the collective. I want to agitate the still and yet create quiet in the roused. I want to make words from the inarticulate and yet to create incoherence from the literary. I am interested in figure ground. The process that is used by planners and architects to critique or criticize the void spaces. I am interested in the figure ground, the image of buildings by urban explorers that feature a lone, silhouetted person as omnipotent over a new Gotham. I am interested in figure ground. The people who leave traces in a 2, 3, 4 dimension morphology that puts the sense of place in constant flux.
I wanted to make a bit of a show - a bit of a fuss. I want to create a special event, a memorable day. I wanted to dress it up a bit. I want you to remember me, and for me to take your responses and echo them again and again to new faces. As I sit here to write I notice the people around me forming some kind of collaborative grouping. With the application of a laminated A3 sign to a door, a room for business meeting becomes a room for worship. The Foursquare Gospel Church is being. The transit space that I am attempting to call ‘work place’ is becoming a place of spirituality and speaking in tongues. I consider again the notion of generosity. I wonder if a live art act can ever be truly altruistic? Or indeed that any act of generosity can be without reciprocation. 48