Session 5

Attendees:
Mauro
James
Hedva
Sara
2 guests (belonging to Hedva)
Lea
Leslie

Activities of the Day:

Development:
Hedva actually started the day off by performing the latest version of the monologue she has been working on the past couple of weeks. It was wonderful to see how it has come over such a short time. There should be a performance of it in the not so distant future.

Restrictions:
Lea read a piece she had written in response to the stimulus. She read it in both Italian and Spanish, and then finally in English. One of Hedva's guests remarked, "The English was a catharsis," because Lea had struggle with the pronunciation of the first two languages. The struggle was in part an attempt to consider one of the sentences, and maintain a sense of "live-ness" in the performance. Here is the text:

Sometimes I want everything all at once so quickly that I think I will drown. The space between the woman I want to become and the woman I am is epic. Or it is not. Sometimes it seems like an inch, then I turn my head and it is three leagues off, then four, then a thousand years away, or it already happened. Sometimes I do not know where I am. Sometimes the air reminds me of the exact air that surrounded me years ago, of places I do not remember but can still sense. Sometimes I talk about events like the Great War, or the French countryside, as if I had some knowledge of them, but I was not around then and there, I do not know them. They do not know me. Sometimes I wish I existed only in sound, in a musical note, surrounded by reverberations and breath, and not in this body, just a shell surrounding myself that is still mysterious, and if I could only just see it maybe I would not want anything else anymore.

Feedback:
Mauro shared a play he has translated from Spanish to English, and is currently working to translate to his native Portuguese. It was a short play by Rodrigo Garcia, called Killing the Hours. For an interesting article on a reaction to Garcia's work, please go here.

Leslie shared some images of the work she had contributed to in Germany for the transmediale festival. One of the thoughts the art work focused on was why climate change means cultural change. For the festival's website, go here.


And that's it, friends. No sentences this week, as we have concluded The Space (in) Between for this term. Thanks to all who participated in the sessions. Thank you for taking the time to share your talents, interests, and artistic endeavours with us and letting us help you when we could and when you needed it. Here's to a great third term!