long time no blog

congratulations to karen and amitesh, i really enjoyed your workshop. It's really exciting that everyone's work is starting to take off, a great way to start the new term.

karen's performance drew you in one minute, letting you really get into it, then the next minute spat you back on the outside and made you really aware of your role as a viewer (voyeur?). I didnt get bored once! i loved the bacchus mask bit, the lead-in really stressed me out (in a good way!) with the projections and that noise like an aeroplane taking off, and the contrast was really strange - in that it almost made sense that karen should suddenly come out with a cow's head on! I didn't get the Bacchus thing (having missed the explanation), maybe it might have occurred to me later, but it didn't really matter. If we all interpreted everything in exactly the same way it would be very boring. I couldn't make out a lot of the words in the readings from the psychology text books, not sure if this is because of sound quality or my deaf ear, but I got the general idea and liked the balance of the different levels of interaction with the projections and the audience. The scale and simplicity of the projections were great, although I was a bit distracted by the green haze, but that's probably just me being anal. Overall, I was really impressed by how much had been achieved and really enjoyed it, I was particularly inspired by how pared down and clear it all seemed. If you guys feel like you don't really know what you're doing, you did a bloody good job of concealing it!

Will fill you guys in on my own work next time... when I've done some