INTERLOCUTION
Current and Upcoming
DIRECTING WATER TO A DEW POINT
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When :
29 September 2021
11am–5pm
There are booking slots every 45 minutes from 11am-4.15pm
Where :
Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6AB
Tel: 020 7247 5102
Artsadmin Bursary artist Hetal Chudasama shares a durational performance and installation, entitled ‘Directing water into a dew point – Incremental Repetition.’
Know it
Any presence is no more familiar
Than our goddess of the jungle
Arms in arms they levitate
Stray bundles of blessings
You pick and choose
Sit – Sleep
Snore
Sneer
Spool that thread you just picked from the air
I’ll deliver just the tool
Come
Voice
The day sets and I’m old
Seek shorelines
Come as water
And bring a stone
Together we shall hang it.
Directing water into a dew point – incremental repetition is a long duration performance and an installation . Films, text, drawings merge with live-action to turn the space at Toynbee Studios into a cave where spells are broken. The performance is divided into 30 minute slots. Six members of the audience will be invited during each slot to experience/ participate in an intimate space together with the artist in order to create a collective imagining and thought making process. The visitors are encouraged to bring a stone or a pebble of any size they may feel fit to carry during their visit. Stone acts as a metaphor for a painful burden. There is no real scale to measure pain. Pain is immeasurable in all its forms. The pain of loss is the worst – loss of active body, loss of freedom, identity, and self. And yet we must scale it, lift it, lower it, lighten it. Deriving from a point of widespread despair, mental illness, disconnectedness and spiritual loss the artist will create a space for collective mourning and re-imagining of a stronger moral strength. This piece is an exercise to touch on a very individual sense of joy snatched out from loss. It enables the conditions for conceiving visions of our present and future collectively.