Holy Hiatus

Untitled 6 hour performance

with Louise Laurens

May 22nd 2008, Small World Theatre/Theatr Byd Bychan, Aberteifi/Cardigan

watching for the liminal in repetition.
After some while I chose to do my moving from a chair. I sat, as soon as I started to move it was prayer, contemplation.

Also see set of images: here

Holy Hiatus
Ritual and Community in Public Art.

The moment of crossing the threshold between outer and inner consciousness.
Curated by Ruth Jones
Aberteifi/Cardigan

Alastair MacLennan (Belfast); Simon Whitehead (Abercych); Maura Hazelden (Crymych) with Louise Laurens; Anna Lucas (London); Yvonne Buchheim (Bristol LAND2 Member)
and symposium

for further information see Holy Hiatus web site

an introduction to the performance can be read here

and a meander throught the themes and symposium here

ointment III

I walk I walk I walk, toe to heel, 2 hours, in the dark around a dim smouldering fire, in tthe old bone house, where animals have walked round and round turning the grind stone. I get so used to the dark that I am lost if someone shines a light; I cannot see my path.

Ritual or what? Ritual or not? I decide to stop and it is exactly the two hours I intended.

Across the way a domestic shrine under a lean-to, in a spring, candles and dressing table.