Artists Spare Room | Helena Salgueiro
These were some notes from my research stay at Eden Arts for my next performance, Bow. Thank you for your kind welcome and, overall, for standing up for art in rural areas. It was a pleasure.
Workwomen trilogy. Part two- BOW (Nortear in Galician)
Ethnography.-Work on the coast-------> harvesting shellfish, netting, carrying fish, carrying men who came from the boats (real tradition now lost, registered in Auchmithie), pulling nets, harvesting and carrying seaweed, bobbin lace, salting etc.
Philosophy.- Migration. Globalisation. Movement. Nomadism. Oceans side by side (Galiza and Scotland). Networks.
IMAGES AND SOUNDS THAT HELP TO CREATE IMAGERY. Table work before rehearsals:
- Women working on the coast
- Black and white photography
- Black and white experimental films
- Cartography
- Codex Huygens
- Geometry
- Architecture
- Icosahedron Laban
- Technical drawing
- Lines
- Geometric figures drawn on pictures of women working by Ruth Matilda Anderson
- Bauhaus
- Hakanai
- Graphic design
- Guggenheim drafts
- Graphic depictions of the internet
- Graphic depictions of molecules and hormones ( H2O and estrogene)
- Marimba music
- Sol Leon
- Jiry Kylian
- Conversation with Heather about her work on photography and dance based in Roland Barthes work, in our walk
to Ullswater Lake (sounds really amazing!)
CONCEPTUAL WORK WITH THE BODY BASED ON FIELD WORK. On rehearsal:
Bobbin lace_net making_ packing shellfish_ pulling nets_ carrying seaweed
Posture ---------> transition---------> posture
Tension-----fall-----tension
Directions/lines/ leakage point
Working with weight: pull/push
Work with inertia: fall (sign of north south east and west)/ running in circles ( shrinking the circle until turning
around carrying your own weight)
Point out -------> vision/ extremities--------> desire/ goal
Work with estrangement- trying to dissociate method from body. Another way to perform field work.
Knitting myself with my fingers
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS BASED ON THE DIFFERENT STARTING POSITIONS IN THE CHOREO-
GRAPHY {BODY AS STUDY, MOVEMENT AS GEOMETRY}. In process.
2 TRADITIONAL FOLKLORIC SONGS- Galician and Gaelic.