Saturday, 3 April 2010

First performance painting attempt - "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" - Pink Floyd

This is my first attempt at a real performance painting, whilst listening to music, in this case, "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. Awesome song! It was really odd, before trying this I tried just doing a performance to the music with my body, without involving any paper or pens etc. I found that ok, not too difficult, it's strange doing performance again, I'd forgotten how free it was. But then trying to add a concious act to an essentially unconcious process made it very hard. I found myself confused, trying to simply be in the now, but I couldn't help but be drawn to the music, getting lost in that, more than getting lost in my own actions. The result being that although I was somewhat acting in the moment, it felt slightly hindered by the fact that my body naturally kept wanting to get lost in the music. Eventually I found that shutting my eyes and simply letting my body flow, giving in to the music with one pen in my hand felt like the most appropriate way to perform in this instance. The moment I decided to switch pens I lost it again though...more practices of these may be needed me thinks, but this is the first go anyway. In order to ease myself into performing again I decided not to film this time, so below is just the result, but as I get more used to it I'll start filming them and posting them on here.

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