Distance between one place and another seems to have immediate significance as I sit here attempting the first entry to this new blog. It holds significance in two ways, firstly as representative of the creative challenge when collaborating across any uneasy distance and secondly the distance between my current place and my return to London in June represents an emotional challenge when maintaining relationship consistency from one to the other.
It is the first half of this dichotomy that is of interest here, the creative challenges of collaborating on a new performance project when the two leaders of such a project are separated, both living hundreds of miles apart with a problematic diary limiting the physical interaction over the coming months.
Place is important, right? It has significance to us all, it is distinguised from space by this very significance. Space is occupied and becomes place. It is our interaction with our environment that builds an understanding of who we are and what our purpose is. We can escape space easily by moving our physical selves to a new space, yet place is more permanent, leaving traces in our imagination, our conscious and unconscious mind.
The trappings of place are what make us stay in the same home, the same job, keep us returning to the same restaurant, the same park bench on our lunch break. Place attracts us and if successful will flourish from our investment in it. Space is the final frontier, the unmapped, the potential place, it is new, constantly evolving and always in a state of permanent flux.
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