{"id":16,"date":"2010-05-05T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2010\/05\/05\/once\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:43:25","slug":"once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2010\/05\/once\/","title":{"rendered":"Once"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Presented as part of of Punctum<\/a>‘s In-Habit<\/a>, a slate of live art projects mounted at the Abbotsford Convent<\/a> in February (which also included Jason Maling<\/a> & Torie Nimmervoll’s Triangulation<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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We encounter strangers every day through chance. What happens when two strangers respond to an invitation and choose to meet? You are invited to encounter a stranger for 10 minutes, in silence, and then respond to that encounter. Record your impressions via written word, or voice recording.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From RealTime Arts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There is a strange, aberrant tension in the convent\u2019s Bishop\u2019s Parlour. The age and restraint of the space and its imagined histories (vows of silence, \u2018audiences\u2019 with the Bishop) creep into the experience. I am seated by an usher at a small table with a lamp in the centre of the room. Left alone for a long moment, the tension is interrupted by the entrance of another. A woman sits and establishes direct eye contact. The lamp is flicked on by the usher. The shadows in the room retreat and harden. Silence.<\/p>\n

Fast mind. Rapid passage of thoughts and images. Discomfort manifests in smiles and corsetted laughs. We look at each other and away to the edges of the spongy darkness. Our gaze returns to the stranger opposite\u2014often, more often. Time slows. Somehow we begin a conversation in writing. Are we breaking the rules? What is forbidden? What is allowed? We relax into a playful meditation on the nature and quality of silence. An usher enters\u2026the stranger is gone.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, sharing experience with the usher is also charged\u2014it too has its intimacies. Like the first stranger, the usher becomes the human face of an unknowable structure that refuses revelation\u2014of intent, meaning and significance. Here, the work of the piece continues and takes the form of a kind of \u2018confession\u2019 of experience and of unusually open avowal.<\/p>\n

The silence, the site and the two meetings form and frame the \u2018work\u2019 of the piece and its artifice, the pretext of its enquiry. Beyond this, the piece works \u2018in\u2019 the participants. Each stranger becomes the site at which a kind of alchemical fusion of projection and introspection lifts itself into consciousness. The work functions as a hiatus, a pause by means of which to see and experience another, to feel habitual avoidance, looking and being looked at, to sense movement towards and away from each other and all of the electricity, e-motion, ethics and responsibility of that\u2026just once.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

YES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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