Desert Trip - possible outcomes / process

From: Marnie Orr [mailto:thebodyplot@bigpond.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:12 PM
To: 'lasantolin@hotmail.com'
Subject: Desert Trip - possible outcomes / process

Hello Sweet Cris
I want to run a couple of ideas passed you.
I have a sense you & I would work very well focusing on investigating body-camera-country relation. And that all that we talked about this morning – parallels in language from different disciplines like neuroscience and shamanism and psychotherapy and Bodyweather would feed that investigation.

Whilst on the road from Adelaide (which is 1500km to Alice Springs by the way!) we create and explore body-camera-country by parallel processes of generating dialogue with each other/others whilst developing our physicality together. Build up a repertoire or database of movement and sound and visuals…

I envisage that we stop at various spots along the way and film ourselves and locals… we could interview people, we could organise to meet with some interesting professionals (say an opal miner in Coober Pedy, a geographer in ??? and maybe work out to talk with a tribal elder in Wolf Creek…)

Along the way I am seeing we stop for a day here or there to do an MB workout or just stretch, that then leads into setting up a small film shoot in the afternoon at an outback location… This work would feed our process in Alice Springs.

I am considering the possibility of leading a Bodyweather workshop in Alice Springs based on continuing this investigation into triangulating body-camera-country. This would give us time to develop our ideas physically and work with the camera with others. I envisage we would be editing at this time too.

This would be followed by a site-specific performance installation (in the desert somewhere or similar) or a video installation at a gallery. I am a member of the contemporary arts organisation in Alice called ‘Watch This Space’ so I am sure they would be keen to be involved.

I envisage that you would essentially be a ‘participant’ during the workshops, but that you and I could develop together activities that I or we could propose to the other participants. Or create a position for you where you just keep feeding into that process.

What do you say?
How does this sound to you?
Marnie
x