tonight i went to the contact jam in the church space.  what a beautiful little space it is.  bloody cold though. today was a little bit of a mishmash for me, and i was incredibly pleased to end it with dancing and a return to a form that has kept me interested and inspired for the last decade.

there’s almost too much for me to get through now.  i’ve got so many things i want to keep exploring and developing and i worry that when i get back to Melbourne I won’t get the time i’d like.

the flickbooks that Simon and I have been working on has been delayed for so long by all the other things we’ve been doing.  and now i’ve started getting stuck into it again i’m remembering the sparks that got me excited.  it’s surprising how some of the thoughts about the flickbooks are present in many of the posts in this blog.  all the talk about Siegal’s complex community networks is very much a part of the flickbooks in terms of opening up the project to participation from anyone.  also, the tiny experiments with the flips that I been doing and paea has taken to hand also has a link through the shifting of the relationship with the body and time.  and of course now i’m thinking about space and the discussions brought about by the interview with Godard and the representation of space and topos in these tiny digital.analogue.digital scrapbooks.

god, it’s really a bit of a worry when you start referencing your own thoughts and explorations. partcularly only a week and a half in.  although, very early on i was thinking about recursive processes, so maybe it’s all ok after all. (that’s another thing i want to try and get back to/on to before the end of the residency).

so, back to the dancing. i managed to have a dance with everyone at the jam except for a guy that left early.  each dance was so different.  remarkably different in fact.  and this reminds me of the openess of this form.  that despite all the definitions and guidelines and instructions and hierarchy and vernacular and socialisation, at it’s base level the form is about an inquiry into movement and body.  and this in and of itself is accessible to anyone who might be interested.

so much more to do. time to rest.