Heads Up
CLAY (Centre for Live Art Yorkshire)
sorrel, coconut husk, string vests, shoes, water, bucket, plastic bags and wooden handle
Heads Up in patios means to be inquisitive, to position yourself in places where you should not be. It is used when one attempts to demystify the inexplicit, the confidential. The performance takes this cultural saying and applies to it the relationship between memory, searching and the instability of structural timelines. It attempts to convert the phenomenological mind mapping of memory into the performative through exemplifying the personal, collective and depersonalisation of life. How do we deconstruct memory and events that are founded through unstable timelines? How much can we trust and value recollection as a mechanism to form, compile and revisit parts of ourselves or our general collective understanding of culture?