{"id":38,"date":"2007-10-27T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T09:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/27\/strangers-intim\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:13:54","slug":"strangers-intim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/strangers-intim\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers & Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Via Rob Hely<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Strangers & Intimacy<\/a> was an interactive performance work staged at West Space<\/a> in Melbourne in early 2005.<\/p>\n

The project began in September 2004 when eight artists were assigned a pen pal living in a city on the other side of the world. On the first day of September they all wrote a four line letter of introduction to their foreign pen friend. Over the four months, between September and December they continued writing letters to each other each week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The development process was interesting enough all by itself..<\/p>\n

Part One = Letters<\/b> – The strangers meet via hand written letters, they reveal themselves, become intimate, share pasts, stories, memories and daily life.<\/p>\n

Part Two = Melbourne<\/b> – They establish a working relationship upon meeting at West Space in Melbourne, they stand face to face, sort through all the material, share ideas and create performances.<\/p>\n

Part Three = Glasgow<\/b> – The artists then travel together to Glasgow, the temperature drops, the poles shift and new intimacies form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

.. but what sounds really<\/i> interesting (from the account related to me yesterday) is the actual performance, which – probably appropriately – isn’t described at all on the page linked above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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