TWO EXCITING THINGS (actually THREE)

Life can be very exciting at times - so much so that if I don't write down what happens, one event piles on top of another, and I miss the individual flavours of the feast.

First excitement was when I happened on a video performance of SIMONE FORTI at the Project Art Gallery http://www.project.ie/cgi-bin/eventdetail.pl?id=673 This is a woman of my own age - actually, she is 73 this year, and I am 'only' 71! To say I was 'wowed' by her energy, and the beauty of her movements is an understatement. I was mesmerized, and plan to go back again and again till I have got my head around what she is doing. Mind, she is a dancer, and her performance might be classified as more theatre than performance art. However, I don't care what they call it - I know I can learn a lot from looking at this woman, and I don't intend to miss the opportunity. my only regret is that I missed actually meeting her when she was in Dublin at the end of March.
This is what they say about her at the Project website (link above):

...legendary dancer Simone Forti to present for the first time in the visual arts context her practice of "News Animations" - a body of work Forti has developed since the early 1980s, improvising movement and speech from the content of the daily news. A member of the pioneering Judson Church Group, Forti's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York and recently at the Serpentine Gallery in London; this exhibition will be the first presentation of her "News Animations" video.

The rest of the exhibition was also interesting. However, I had so exhausted myself watching Forti that I dozed off and will have to look properly at the other pieces on my next visit. The exhibition is on until May 3, so I have plenty of time.

The second excitement happened at the PILLS exhibition in the Science Gallery
I was attending the discussion between the audience and the doctor and artist who collaborated in the work. The woman I was sitting beside turned out to be from NCAD - Nicola Gordon Bowe. Even though we only chatted for a few moments, I feel quite confident in taking up her invitation to visit her and to get the artist's email, as she suggested I should. So that is a connection to follow up when I get back to college.

The third excitement happened this morning. I was looking up Simone Forti on You Tube and came across this clip of jazz improvisation.

I was thinking that I would love to perform with this video, adding/mirroring to their movements in time to this lively music.

Now I need to go and eat breakfast, and drop back down to the world of the Everyday - the real 'everyday', not just the arty one.