Forecasts (November 2007)
Tether Festival
Collaborative performance with Matthew Cooper
“As part of Tether Festival, Alexandria Clark and Matthew Cooper
combine their practices over the course of three days,
constructing unplanned and uncertain structures from words and wood.”
"After graduation, we decided that even though we did not know eachother very well, we both worked in performance and wondered whether it would be possible to combine our practices. So we began by writing letters; freethought, ideas, doodles...just writing. From there we put in a proposal for Tether Festival to perform over the course of 3 days. "Forecasts" was chosen because it was unknown and in the future. There was no set words to be written or structures to be formed. The only possible preconceived ideas were from the letters and from there we proceeded to continue.
As the words moved across the scree, he built up the structures. Attempting to highlight certain phrases, hide others, as I typed over him, about him, around him. It was a strange relationship full or control, attempts to rebel against eachother and to also connect. In the end it resolved it abolishing it all. I slowly highlighted and deleted...sometimes whole screens worth...and he dismantled. It left us with "the end" typed upon a yellow plank. And then we left."
Alexandria Clark
