thinking things through before seeing kira o'reilly for tutorial...

ok- so these are the issues/conflicts/things i'm most pre-occupied with today;

• I want to do a show that challenges my work through playing more with the audience, proximity,intimacy, live and mediated.the photograms idea works very well and i have a solid performance there but need to take it to the next level
• am i going to have the space at the back of theatre to be able to work with ideas of overlooked, anonymous/intimate, voyeuristic- review each shedseason event and work out which works the best in situ. decisions need to be finalised!
• i still like the floral idea but maybe merging with parts of the other events, and removing the flowers from a planter and then putting them back (replanting) after the photogram story, referencing the situation of a performance between life and death- the flowers fate hangs in the balance- to be planted and continuing to live rather than automatically killing everything (as I keep doing)?!
• work more on the relationship between the housing block, alienating stairwell and the shed- what's the meaning of the shed- go back to original research i said i would do and have only half completed eg interviewing people in their sheds
• why am i wanting to work beyond the one-to-one intimate darkroom encounters- what does it do for my practice? more people can see the work is lame 'excuse', i do like the idea that it offers people a proper chance to decide whether they do or don't want to participate, i.e. they'd need to see phase 1 then sign up for phase 2- this needs to be thought through more- a sense of hooking people to come along for the second part, leave them without the punchline or leave them on a cliffhanger?
• phase 1 - my story- telling the story to a group- how? live/mediated and if so why? where are the audience situated?

-on the stairwell- mediated via mobile photos/multimedia players? intimacy in an anonymous place like when you sit o the train- the video draws you into my world away from your surroundings

-in the big shed (participants enduring forced intimacy with strangers)or is this alone?)- watching me together, with me in the little shed through the window or live feed link?)

• what type and size of shed- and new/freecyle? one old, one new? shiplad style seems to be best as most light tight (from investigations at B&Q and homebase yesterday)
• Use the ideas kira talked though in her work where only the end, less intimate part is recorded (the holding her part) to help me make decisons about documentation- style of photographs to encapsulate a mood, use of slow shutter speed, or how about kitschy filters for nostalgia haha. spoof, hyper documentation- staged reality. or how would it have been if i'd photographed the people with me after the experience?