some examples on what we do TOGETHER

Sleep Work Go to war Repair sth Play Help Watch animals

Cut hair Protest Go on strike

Follow rules Make history Get drunk Play ping pong

Compete Sing Laugh Massage Hold each other Make news

Create Fashions Murder (suicide?)

Global warming Make kids

Lets go tomorrow into an apartement. Intimacy.
Many interesting situations took place. We are all pets.
We are all guests and hosts one after the other, interchanging.
We take a thing that stand around and pass it on.

We lay together and create a space for resting. there we are together. It is as simple as that.

a question,

What is it today that is not mediated in some way, is there any area of life at all, where mediated information/ experience has not and never had any influence?

ghost

Capturing the non physical influences in daily life in material is exciting.

Relating to other people with mobile phones is exciting.

It is exiting to be contacted, to get a phone call, a sms. The joy of being talked to, the joy that somebody turns the attention to you as her or she is for example singing a song for you in the phone.

The distance, the anonymity – the person is far way, there is no big risk involved. The potential of that space, from imagined person to a person physically present.

I walk down the street, receive a call , and somebody is singing a song for me. The voice comes closer, suddenly I hear it right beside me, the he is, the person is singing, right beside me, through the phone, and on the street.

he walks faster, walks by me, dissapears on a big square. he has no body , his body is gone, as I listen to the intimate song through the phone, right into my ear, and see him dissappear on the square.

The ghost like experiences of perceiving a person altering in direct contact and through mediated space.

The ghosts like experience, the absence present all day around, just more blurred, not made so explicit available as in some of the set ups we tested.

The virutality of space, as sounds or information of spaces overlay.

The virutality of our own minds, as they react on memory, imagination, and mash ups of different combinations of present sensory experience and other factors, often without being aware.

Turning towards and evolving in the myth of reality, the myth of a city, that is asleep inside our cells, embedded in our dreams and has a hope, a curiousity to wake up.

paradox and fabrications

Finally. There is a large stone on a street corner, like a crossroads, the pulse of a city can be experienced. The true question of framing comes up. How does one frame experience, when one gets a glimps of the true vastness fo the moment. Any frame is a fabrication. Where one should avoid any. Here on this street corner, please avoid all fabrications, please avoid all and any distractions, including this performance, including my voice, and yours. Here you can just sit and see humanity, reality. as you see it , right now, right there.

Speaking with a few residence in Ørsted, their comments about living there seemed straight out of the promotional material of the place. Was it because the experience of living there matches the intention of the architects, I don’t know.

..in the process of walking...

I am a voyer in Nørrebro. I don’t know what the people here would like to make happen in such a project? Would they care? Am I trying to connect them to a part of the city because of reasons that are significant?

I know I come closer to the place each time I walk. Each time I think of the environment as a potential for experience

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...tech...and ...presence

Then later I go for a walk with a Tech master. How can we make a space active, in a way it is not already. What am I trying to do? Direct perception? Limit perception to cause impressions? Limit impressions to creat perceptions? Create situations for authentic experiencing of preconceived ideas? As I stand infront of this deserted gas station in the middle of the city I have to ask my self what is meaningful for me here? What is meaningful in a collective sense? What is possible in the medium of Percpetual Interventions, and what does technology offer to enhance this.

Will having devices that `know` where I am and `sense` where I am help bring me here? An unexpected response form the environment, feedbacking my presence to me. We know you are here, and you should know you are connected to others, now you know you matter. You leave a residue which is important, as we are all connected, we matter, and us know this matters even more.

Then I call you as a friend, geniounly interested. I am not performing, I really want to know. I can tell you where I am as well. I like getting SMS instructions, leaves me free to interpret. When I hear your voice I feel more captured, more distanced from this place.

intervene or faciltate

I want to see people carrying the same object down the street, a huge collaboration carrying stones to some corner. I have a hard time holding back the desire to effect the on going life here in a new. It is artistic arrogance.

what makes up "frames for experiencing" in this work...

I keep thinking about the parameters for interventions as they are called here. The vector of the sense, the vector of the situation created, the vector of the information given, the vector of the action itself, whether initiated by the audience o by a performer or environment, and the vector of the audience member themselves, how they come and what is their preoccupation and disposition. All these are potential intervention entry points, and can all effect perception.

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We were walking in a state of Pure Perception, then with attention to reflection and then further with attention to third party reflection or references. There are many layers to the experience of traveling through the city. I kept looking for holes in the city places that lead into the belly of it. Places that were partially out side the stream. I kept wanting to put things in the bushes or in the air vents of the buildings. Wanting to bring the inside out and have the life inside exposed. Or place a sofa on the street and have folk meet, sit or not, making an open invitation.