ONIZ Performance

A short poem that I wrote a while ago seemed to resonate with some of the ideas we discussed. Liz wrote a response to it and we linked it to a text I had written to create a small scene. The text I wrote was a character imagining a relationship with his neighbour who he meets when they are forced to leave their house. Liz wrote two poetic texts that looked at intimacy and despair. The three texts slotted together creating a dream like scene in which two characters are connected but are also separate.

If the World ends….

Death

Forgets life,

Beautiful and exciting with

Accelerating speed,

Carrying hearts full of love

And glory of dreams.

These reasons for living

Give us help to survive,

If the World ends

Survive! To help us give

Living for reasons these

Dreams of glory and

Love of full hearts.

Carrying speed accelerating

With exciting and beautiful

Life, forgets

Death

by Jon Gavaghan

We are concerned with what happens to people when their situations are altered by a natural disaster. We were mainly influenced by the floods in Cumbria in November 09, however the recent earthquake in Haiti has turned this subject on it's head. The tragedy being portrayed in the media at the moment has prompted us to rethink ideas and to really look at how a natural disaster affects people. The main problem with this piece is how to make a work that doesn't patronise the audience or try to recreate actual events or people? What is evident is that natural disasters remind us that we are not alone and that nature is a force that can't be tamed or contained. How can we create a piece that highlights the the power of nature and it's affect on a fragile species?