IN REAL TIME.
This video documents activities carried out during the early 1980's. It began in the aesthetic education classes I carried out at the University of Canterbury in the 1970's, activities which informed my own work more and more. CAP was an earlier, more focused version of this activity.
The objective of this work was to attempt to gain access to the moment when un-thought-about (pre-cognitive) impulses and the natural predisposition of the materials, combined to produce action. We tried to 'stop thinking' and inhabit only the present moment.
The idea was to precipitate interactive contexts which were similar to ones found in nature, so that we, ourselves were co-opted into the context as merely another element in an implacable flux. This, we imagined, might lead us to make work that evinced inevitable, natural connections.
A strong influence on my developing of this mode, was the Canadian dancer/choreographer Mary Fulkerson, who came to New Zealand in 1979 and gave performances and workshops. Colleen Anstey and I attended these, and subsequently spent an extended period working with a group convened by Mary at Dartington College, in the south of England. On returning home, I embarked upon the IRT activity with Colleen Anstey and Chris Cree Brown, assisted during a tour of New Zealand Art Galleries in 1982, by Bronwyn Officer.
The objective of this work was to attempt to gain access to the moment when un-thought-about (pre-cognitive) impulses and the natural predisposition of the materials, combined to produce action. We tried to 'stop thinking' and inhabit only the present moment.
The idea was to precipitate interactive contexts which were similar to ones found in nature, so that we, ourselves were co-opted into the context as merely another element in an implacable flux. This, we imagined, might lead us to make work that evinced inevitable, natural connections.
A strong influence on my developing of this mode, was the Canadian dancer/choreographer Mary Fulkerson, who came to New Zealand in 1979 and gave performances and workshops. Colleen Anstey and I attended these, and subsequently spent an extended period working with a group convened by Mary at Dartington College, in the south of England. On returning home, I embarked upon the IRT activity with Colleen Anstey and Chris Cree Brown, assisted during a tour of New Zealand Art Galleries in 1982, by Bronwyn Officer.
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