Remnants Re-made Zine prototype

REMNANTS RE-MADE

Matter re-made, with remnants of something remembered and recycled. Re-using, re-creating, re-arranging into dance, into words, into something new.

T h e f o l l o w i n g e x c e r p t s o f t e x t h a v e b e e n g e n e r a t e d u s i n g a p r a c t i c e o f d a n c i n g , m e m o r y a n d t r a n s c r i p t i o n c r e a t e d b y P h a e d r a B r o w n a n d S a r a h S a x o n . T h e p r o c e s s i s a s f o l l o w s :

O n e p e r s o n a t t e m p t s t o r e m e m b e r a n d r e - c r e a t e m o v e m e n t m a t e r i a l f r o m a p a s t e x p e r i e n c e o r p e r f o r m a n c e . A t t h e s a m e t i m e t h e y a t t e m p t t o r e c a l l a n d s p e a k o u t l o u d a m e m o r y . A t t h e s a m e t i m e t h e o t h e r p e r s o n i s t r y i n g t o w r i t e t h e s t o r y b e i n g t o l d .

H o w e v e r , b e c a u s e t h e p e r s o n d a n c i n g i s a f f e c t e d b y m e m o r y , i n f o r m a t i o n a n d i n p u t , t h e i r s t o r y b e c o m e s s o m e w h a t f r a g m e n t e d . A t t h e s a m e t i m e t h e w r i t e r c a n n o t w r i t e a s f a s t a s t h e s p e a k e r i s t a l k i n g , s o t h e t r a n s c r i p t i o n o f t h e m e m o r y f r o m s p e e c h t o t e x t b e c o m e s e v e n m o r e d i s c o n n e c t e d .

T h i s c r e a t e s a s l e e p - t a l k - l i k e p i e c e o f t e x t , w i t h a l l u s i o n s t o t h e t o p i c o f t h e o r i g i n a l m e m o r y , b u t m o r e r e s e m b l i n g a c o l l a g e o f t h a t m e m o r y . T h i s , w e f e e l , r e a d s m o r e l i k e o n e s e e s a b s t r a c t c h o r e o g r a p h y ; t h e r e i s o f t e n n o n a r r a t i v e b u t w e c a n s t i l l g r a s p a n o v e r a l l t h e m e o r i m p r e s s i o n .

COMMON & COMMUNITY

She places herself in the centre of the empty space She sits, pen poised above notebook

A commotion of babies scream for their mothers at the crèche nearby She waits patiently, primed to listen, to record her friend’s story. She takes a breath and catapults herself back, 15 years She dances. She remembers. Her body recalls the stories. She of mind and body Living and re-living Dancer and speaker.

Listener and writer

Common and community Two women holding space for stories that emerge from bodies She dances

F i r s t c o u l d n ’ t .

T w e l v e , w h e n h o l d i n g h a n d s a n d a s c o o t e r u m ,

A n d l i k e .

P r o b a b l y s i x t e e n .

P a r e n t s , c a r , b a d f r i e n d s w i t h t h e l i k e ,

m a y b e . S o .

T w e l v e !

G l a s s e s a n d p a i n t , M c D o n a l d s . U m .

S e v e n t e e n , r u n , t r a m p o l i n e , a e r o p l a n e .

B a d .

B a d , b a d , b a d , S e v e n t e e n T w e n t y B a l l r o o m .

A h u n i .

A c t i n g , n o t r e a l l y .

I r i s h a n d a v a n , p o k é b o w l t o o l o n g . T i m e n o t a n d f u n ,

R e s p e c t i n l i g h t s .

W i

If you listen closely to your friends’ stories from their travels, and not the days where they gasp at great monuments, but the days when they are navigating public transport in a new city and are wandering the streets when no cafes are open, they will reveal the most about their character. Sarah was trying to recall the meals she had while in I l d What

g y the landscapes and environments from where she had stopped to eat.

telling surviving drawings belonging sewing providing feeling missing gliding sketching writing scribbling seeing transferring feeling something glueing recording sounding writing something everything creating making creating painting writings lasting enriching existing freeing limiting

Gathering and sifting

Concocting blind optimism from beautiful bodies

Surprising arises from the fifth time in a row

The thing in the frame becomes an entity

Seperate

But, and, The closest of friends

So you speak of it gently

Like the pressed flower it is

And you hold it in the highest regard

But address it with the lowest humour