so many more pictures!

with many thanks to henk kuipers, photographer (among other artistic trades) and husband of our friend liset, i post some photos taken the day we danced with the rabbits. you can see the rest of his photographs at http://www.flickr.com/photos/henk-kuipers

and there's liset!

just some unpublished photos

some pictures in motion from liset, during rabbit filming:






below: us with the couch surfers & their works of art behind us

jasmine's film, in the making

choreographing the scene in the kitchen

early morning recap

one bird outside our window had a rhythm going pre-5am this morning, and once it got in my head i couldn't shut it out. i dozed in the light for an hour or so, until i was bored with that. when i felt it was late enough that i wouldn't be putting myself back to bed by the time jasmine awoke, i got up trying not to disturb the sleeper on the other mattress, and came downstairs for tea. running low on tea ... we are going through it at such a pace we fear it might be unhealthy! you can't die from too much tea ... i keep telling jasmine there are worse addictions to have. jajaja

yesterday focused a lot on the beginnings of jasmine's film. her idea centers around co-existence and co-dependent relationships, and will feature a new character in our house, who will be visiting the weekend after next. may i introduce henning. a guitarist and harmonica player from frankfurt, germany! he will be playing the harmonica, and i will be the co-existing character. so yesterday we began with the beginnings of a day: getting out of bed. three impros later, one in the bedroom, one in the stairwell, and one in the kitchen, we had the base concept of the film. jasmine had mapped it out, and we filled in the blanks by trying out how to walk across the wall of the staircase, instead of taking the spiral stairs. or how to take a pair of sneakers off on the window ledge instead of conventionally untying the laces... or using one's hands...

two snapshots from our video-making!

15 days in delft

... and it only took two weeks for us to get our blog up and running. not bad, eh? it was really that it took us this long to find internet in our soon-to-be-demolished house.

welcome to our blog, and thanks for reading. we are two weeks and two days into our process, though i am one week and one day since actually being here in beautiful delft. two days ago, on sunday, we had a showing of the work so far. we presented a live work, out in our front garden, while the viewers stood in the living room and watched from the large windows. we tried to speak to them, difficult for the closed door, and directed them around the house using the map drawn on a wooden shelf, hung for their viewing. set up in each of the rooms we had clippings of things we've been exploring: photography in the community, a video (poorly edited due to our un-tech-savviness), and a video of allison's, who is our third collaborator-to-be.

for most of the other artists involved, this was their final showing. (ours isn't until 2 august.) it was a good opportunity for us to see the site-specifics happening in the ghetto, and a chance for us to finally meet the other people with the green-painted windows. there were a number of artists who, unlike us, are locals and use the space only as a separate studio space ... but for us, this space is our living space, working space, sleeping space, cooking space. we shower here and afterwards make a dance under the sink. (which we haven't done, but i might have to try now...)

sadly this first post must happen in a rush because we are soon out the door and into the grey & rainy streets. we are headed to one of the fore-mentioned locals' full-time studios to meet with her about a rabbit.

more to come when we return from town...