Easter Eggies

Easter

Easter again
Easter egg painting once more!!
Wonderful teenager made some gorgeous
character faces.

Blurred vision

Blurred view of my window a dark and rainy Saturday night. Waiting for project to render..

Compiling work

link to video

Compiling work into categories and sorting files - discovering new and forgotten work on the way. Looking for venues to show and share work.

stills chapel dance NY aug 12 - heidi saarinen   

Octagon Tower

Beautiful staircase Octagon Tower Roosevelt Island - in an old 70's New York travel book in the charity shop. I believe the space has been developed into apartments :-(

Amazing how much information I have found through this one image..

I am finding some very interesting background info on this site. Here is a blog link about young female journalist Nellie Bly who became interested in the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt Island. Bly spent time in the original lunatic asylum, then wrote about the experience What Nellie Bly found on Blackwell’s Island

source: http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/what-nellie-bly-found-on-blackwells-island/ 

I must go and visit the site next time I'm in NY. Fascinating architecture, site, location and history.

related links:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/copper/blog/episode-1-banished-to-blackwell-island/

http://historyofjournalism.onmason.com/2012/11/27/nellie-bly-and-ida-m-tarbell/

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/the-roving-runner-roosevelt-island/

*** and I just can't get enough of this blog with rich and fascinating content on everything NY history:

http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com 

Union Square/E14th/5th Ave

source: http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/category/union-square/

fast forward...

..........................FAST FORWARD

I need a FAST FORWARD button.. I am moving very slowly today. Waiting for video to upload to youtube, why is it taking so long today, when I had plans to leave the house early - there is a lot to do! Going to Kinetica today and getting my train tickets for remote encounters in April.
MORE LATER.

Remote Encounters - disDance 11054.80

Remote Encounters 11-12 April 2013, Cardiff, where I am performing on site, together with performers in a remote location.

disDance 11054.80

Abstract:

disDance 11054.80

The proposed project involves two geographically separated, distinct, performances which influence each other’s progress using a novel networked connection system. The audience at each site (one performance would take place in Cardiff and the other will be hosted at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore) will directly experience only the physical elements of the activity at their site, but because of the disruptions to and changes in the presented material, will be aware that its progress is inscribed by events in an unseen performance - a hidden rationale. Each performance determines the structural unfolding of the other producing a non-linear narrative, at each end of the disDance, referring to immediate place yet simultaneously bearing witness to a connection, to distance and remoteness. 

The content of each performance will be choreographed and devised by Heidi Saarinen (dance, articulations of space) and Ian Willcock (digital materials and sound) through a collaborative, exploratory process working with small groups of performers in each location. These processes will include sustained networked contact (through Skype); the project acknowledges that the process of making a performance begins well before the actual presentation itself and seeks to integrate networks into the preparatory phases as well as those activities actually presented to audiences. The performance will last for approximately 20 minutes. 

scents to get the day started

today