1: The Future Starts Here.

Today the process for creating a new Strange Names Collective project began.

1: The team of Gillian, Kevin, Michael, Rachel, and Suzy were invited, and accepted, to join the process.

2: They were notified of the blog.

3: They were sent an unfinished document to read and contribute to.

4: The document includes the following information:

The procedure for constructing the performance starts here, not with gathering and generating material but with deciding the method for achieving this.

 

Rather than following one method, we will employ all of our individual methodologies.

 

The performance has a working title ‘Future Tense’ and two core questions:

 

What is ‘Future’? - and as a sub-question - What is ‘Potential’?

 

All inclusions in the Bill of Parts should encourage responses to these questions.

 

We are each to create tasks, questions, and prompts, and include them in the document, also suggesting additions, alterations, and clarifications to each other’s inclusions. These could take the form of:

 

Writing tasks, or open questions.

Instructions for physical tasks.

Images to be created.

Objects to be manipulated.

Relevant sources to be encountered or used

Processes to be undertaken.

Speculations on possible performances or elements thereof.

 

Or any other gathering or generating procedure that you can come up with…

 

Hopefully at this stage the difficult task will not be coming up with procedures, but actually holding back on them, as we are not to share ideas until the document is completed. Enjoy.