Impending presence 2011

The Artists Theatre Reykjavík Iceland.

Sitting on the floor in the shadow at a table, I had my a computer connected to a printer. During the performance, I wrote down feelings and thoughts as they came to me, printing them out spontaneously. What I wrote was in direct relation to my connection with the audience in that moment and place. The text was unprepared, spontaneous, and self generated. On the floor, in the light, my assistant artist Ásdís Sif with a microphone. She took each sheet as it emerged from the printer and read aloud what was written.

During the performance, I played a sound piece I had composed for it, both music and sound effects, heavy yet beautiful and charged with tension.

Examples of the spontaneous text:

I don’t know if this will work, but I ask for guidance.

You try to reach me; I respond.

Death is as close as life.

Sometimes nothing seems to be happening, but more is going on than we know you and I.

There is tension between us, I feel it like an electric current.

I’m glad you are there.

I see you, even if you may not know it.

You wait, waiting for me to free you from boredom, like the Golden Plover.

I am on your shore, diving deep into your soul.