Hurtling

Hurtling is an audio-led performance for one person at a time, usually experienced somewhere high up with a view—often a rooftop—in which the audience member is led to consider the experience of moving through time.

Since it began in 2013, Hurtling has probably been presented more widely—and over a longer span—than any of my other performances. One of the things I love most about it is the way it quietly absorbs what’s happening in the world around it. Each version is updated to include events from that day’s newspaper, while also inviting the participant to reflect on their own past and future selves. It’s a piece that unfolds in a moment, but echoes across years.

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

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

Hurtling is an outdoor performance for one person with a cassette player and headphones, 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.