Questions… (Why have you done this?)

My previous post adressed the primary question posed to me by those who experience my work.  This question being:
“What does it mean?”
Having aswered that, the second question, almost invariably is:
“What is it, and why have you done it?”
(And no, I couldn’t possibly have lifted this response from an application to a certain funding body that [...]

…getting pretty serious…

On Monday we met once again at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art.  This is the venue for our open showcase, COMP (Crossing Of Movements Project) that will premiere next Saturday.  We have had a while now to get oriented with the space, to explore Seoul, so start generating material, and to create improvised performance [...]

The Excitement Of Collaboration

Tomorrow I will tell you what we did today. But as for this evening…
Let’s just say that tonight’s artist laboratory bordered on the hideous.
We are preparing for a guerrilla performance tomorrow at Kookmin University, a kind-of demonstration for the dance and art faculties.  We were given the stimulus for the mostly-improvised performance on Monday.  The [...]

Weekend In The Mountains

We spent this weekend at Songnam Stars Valley.

We were told that this weekend we would be participating in an ‘improvised performance’, and we were not told much more than that.

It turns out that Songnam Stars Valley is an observatory in the mountains, about 40 minutes to the north of Seoul.  The observatory is [...]

COMP Artist Lab #2

Tonight we shared our homework with the group.  We were asked to prepare as short piece of movement, inspired by our research so far.
Fonkam:          Beggers, lovers, workers in Cheonggyecheon
Si Jae:              Enjoying the natural beauty of Seoul
Jeremy:            Drunk man on subway
Kyoon Hee:     The story [...]

COMP – Day One

I fell out of bed. For me, the morning literally came in with a crash. I didn’t think it was very funny, but apparently it is.
Last night we had the first meeting for the Crossing Of Movement Project, which is being held as part of the Modern Dance Festival (MoDaFe) in Seoul.
It is hard not [...]

Almost a Week

So, I’ve been here almost a week.  I love Korea.
Question: What do you get when you have 12 attractive Korean men, standing on a stone balcony, yelling what appear to be insults and degrading requests to two equally as attractive men, in a dusty soccer field, standing in front of a tent?
Answer: Prime time Korean [...]

Protected: Dancing with myself

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