Hurtling

This is an audio-led performance in which a single audience member sits somewhere high up with a view—normally a rooftop—and is led to consider the experience of moving through time.

Hurtling has probably been presented more widely and over a longer span of time (since 2013 ongoing) than any of my other performances. Over that time one of my favourite things about it is its capacity to hold whatever is happening at the time both on a cultural level (the performance refers to happenings in that day’s newspaper) and on a personal level (it invites considerations of previous versions of the participant’s self). And because it’s a piece about the experience of time there is satisfaction about the work focussing on a moment, but also spanning years.

I have a message for you from the past.
Ok, it’s a message from this morning, so it may be the recent past. But it’s still the past.

This is an invitation to remember a previous version of yourself, to imagine a future version and to wonder who that makes you now.

Hurtling is an outdoor performance for one with a cassette player and headphones that is re-made for each location in which it’s performed. It’s a glimpse of a fleeting moment as it zooms past; an attempt to grasp at a slippery present.