experimental performer/composer

Bullet point bergen

  • bergen thoughts

    • beautiful place

    • expensive

    • the country looked to actually be functional unlike this one

    • oslo to bergen train one of the highlights of my life

  • the role of a festival

    • I had a small contribution to travel fees

    • is it fair for me to be there?

    • do I need to perform in bergen?

    • why was the festival allowing this open call?

    • to offer opportunities to unknown artists? to simply be inclusive?

    • the lack of connection between most of the artists works were jarring

    • should there be a theme or connection?

    • is having 39 different performances happening at once helpful for each performer?

  • worries about work about sound against work against political/ethic issues

    • is a work about sound more valuable than a work that raises issues about the environment?

    • is a work about sound equatable in

  • travelling as an artist

    • I said to my neighbour I was going on holiday

      • was I embarrassed?

    • being calm on public transport

      • the train isn’t going to leave without you once you are on it regardless if you are sitting

      • the plane isn’t going to leave without once you are on it regardless if you are sitting

    • extremely grateful for art’s existence so insignificant me can travel and perform art

    • extremely grateful for Aaron Moorehouse’s existence so I could collaborate with him

  • travelling as an northern irishman

    • always referring to myself as Irish

    • always explaining that I live/work/study in Birmingham but not from there

    • never getting into political discussions as a result

    • not really my identity?

    • I really need to learn a second language

  • highlights of other peoples work/ and the festival

    • Alexandra Bischoff

      • uncanny boredom

    • Bianca Hisee

      • unsettled balancing

    • PAB open session

      • twine and tongues

    • Pavana Reid

      • hypnotic and grave

    • Lykourgos Porfyris

      • tunes for days

    • Tanjan Silvestrini - but my polyester heart still longs for something else

      • Unsettling and charmingly funny

    • Tina Marian Krogh Madsen and Malte Stein

      • similar to Aaron’s piece! But really mediated and lovely to experience

James McIlwrath