today began with Paea leading a contemporary class for Strut. i had a good time. really. despite being the unco dancer at the back of the class.

then simon led an improv class looking at the work he started with Alexandra MacDonald earlier this year. in one part of the investigation/exploration simon mentioned one person engaging in resistance, assistance or t-boning (fuck it all up)

hang on – got to go and do some body work… will continue this in a moment

will come back tomorrow now… blah

ok, so a couple of days later i return to finish off my train of thought. and, of course, in the time between i have read the other posts by simon and paea, had a few conversations about the classes, been swimming in the ocean, enjoyed some preservative free wine, helped put in the floor of a tent in Forrest Place and done a couple of loads of washing, all of which mean my original thoughts have been somewhat influenced and diluted by other information.

in fact, one of the thoughts i was having about the classes was to do with information and processing. in paea’s class the information came incrementally and was explicitly directed. it also came at a particular pace, which, to my un-contemporary/un-institutionally trained body, was at a considerable speed. to make a dodgy tech analogy, my CPU had to work at capacity for most of the class to keep on top of the information. towards the end of the class i noticed that i was not taking any new information in – i had reached a level of saturation. and with it the ability to process information? mental fatigue? overheated CPU? i enjoyed working at that capacity. and also of remembering the practice of allowing – that it is possible to let information in without making a conscious decision about the information.

in contrast, simon’s class began with a packet of information that was setting up an exploration. the information was presented to the class without being overly prescriptive. as the class progressed smaller pieces of information were transmitted, which acted like triggers or reminders of the exploration. as we were working in duets, the processing of this information was necessarily handled differently by each person. as a unit, the processing and creation of data were indivisible – is this a recursive system? acting independently but implicitly linked – reminds me of the uncertainty arguement – mutually exclusive, yet jointly essential for a complete description of quantum events.