Aberystwyth Residency Notes #1 (Taken directly from notebook)

Working with the following materials to create a solo choreographic piece to work with:
A (previous) movement
A (new) movement phrase of repeated gestures
A (self written) butoh fu (see documents of our scores for the butoh-fu's we used)
An image:
Francis Bacon 'The Base of Crucifixion' (1944)/'The Human Head' (1953)/
'Man with Dog' (1953)
Paula Rego 'Scavengers' (1994)/'Baying' (?)
Gericault 'Study for Raft of the Medusa' (?)
Objects: Marbles/balls/metronome
Costumes: Wig/Shirt/Slips
Texts: Dante 'The Inferno'/Kafka 'Metamorphosis'/Merleau Ponty 'Phenomenology of Perception/Choreographic Score Book/Hay 'My Body the Buddhist'/ Mary Oliver poetry.

Thinking (as Rotman describes) of the self as gestural, written, spoken and digital.

Thinking about the self and digital technology:
Mobile phone
Email
Web pages
Camera survelliance
GPS system
Social network
Notion of the self continuing after death online (the ghost)
New 'digital' words:
blogged
webcammed
posted
googled
tweeting
sending
linked-up
connect up
looked up
profile
Presence - being able to be in several places at the same time (online identity).

Mapping the self on the site using masking tape to trace pathways. Saw that we cannot capture the complexity of the movement lines using the tape, or perhaps any means.

The post-humanistic body is more about 'self' than body.

'Mirroring' exercise observation:
In the film footage of this exercise (where Noyale is mirroring Rebecca) Rebecca is out of shot and you can only see Noyale. You cannot see that Noyale is mirroring me; watching this was an interesting experience of my 'self'. I can see that she recognises my physicality and is thus able to mirror me, equally, when mirroring her I can almost pre-empt what her movements might be. I recognise her. This can be looked at in relation to Rotmans notion that we have a 'better' sense of self through the multiplicity of self. But what about the interior life that Noyale cannot see in me? It is interesting that she can mirror my physical expression of my interior life, and yet she cannot access my interior life.

Walked on the seafront and balanced on the wind on the jetty. Took an improvisation around the body-wind jetty experience into the studio. Through the improvisation I sensed a shared internal life (as opposed to the mirroring experience), which created quite a different sense to when we stepped in and out of eachothers solos. The experience of the wind externded into the space as an environment.

Online identity as less physical and more verbal. A self-reflective exercise in terms of our own digital identity.
Questions Rebecca asked Noyale:
Describe yourself to me
What does your online presence look like?
What does your website look like?
Where do you use digital technology?
How do you use digital technology?