Day 2

2009-02-02T22:19:00.000-08:00

So today, it was all about timing. How I could make sure this happened on time. So, I was driving and filming at the same time. Not generally recommended and I'm OH SO GLAD the cops didn't pass by. But, I was fascinated by the way it felt to move the steering wheel. I had to pay attention to it in a completely new way because my fathom was in front of me. There's this cross motion in front of the body that engages your entire frame - from top of head to tip of toe - when you turn a steering wheel. It made me think about my relationship to machines, about the car as an extension of self, but not really. It's enough of an extension that my body's motions affect it. But not enough of an extension to transform the nature of my cells or its frame....unless there's a collision and then the particles completely just do their own thing altogether. Hopefully not too much of their own thing. But, I digress.

Day 1

2009-02-01T16:32:00.001-08:00

This is part of my preparation for Landlines - the performance project in which I will be walking from Austin to Eagle Pass, Texas. That's 220 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border. Along the way, I will be installing stories that I've collected from people. They will be transformed into visual art work which will occupy the Texas landscape along my performance route.

From February 1 to February 28, I will be stopping at 6pm each day - no matter where I am - to create gestural language for one complete minute (sometimes a little over). I decided to use the fathom that Wura-Natasha Ogunji made for me to use in her video series, Soundings. I think they will reveal interesting information.

These inquiries are video recorded and will then be uploaded on this blog every day for 28 days. I hope to be able to use my experience to develop gestural/movement language for the performance walk. What I'm interested in is the practice. Today, I video recorded using a compressed setting on the video cam. Oops. Tomorrow will be better (hopefully!).