Clarification

Psychosis was an experiment. It has been about the focus and examination of the self in the moment of the 'performance' of live art. What is the performed?

The work is problematic and therefore worthy of enquiry and development.

If one is to take two modes of delivery and place them side to side what is the result. The first uses a stylised method of movement derived from Butoh - yet it is the not the homogenised form of Butoh that dominates today - it is improvised, not choreographed (yet admittedly it does hit certain bullet points or cues). The second is an act of mutilation - where the first section appeared controlled this action is not, there is no method in the design of the cutting yet the area [head] which is cut is set for it represents the self. However the lack of design to the cutting is a self imposed construct so does this paradoxically counter itself?

What half is 'performed'?

Perhaps the connotations of the word performed as being a dirty concept within live art is a wrong or incorrect one to impose - and far too large a subject to be broken down here in this blog entry - so for the sake of argument lets use the taboo word 'theatre.' I do not believe that Psychosis is theatre as I created a piece of live art. But could it be perceived as theatre?

The work has initially been performed in a theatrical [end-on] setting and uses elements of light and sound but these 'constraints' were incorporated into the work in order to assist the question of what is the performance in this context?

By re-staging the work twice in the same space one has been able to start to question/examine what happens to personae & self of the live artist when live work is restaged - as the act of re-staging alters and reshapes the work, its growth and the experience of actual for the self of the artist in action.

These are just a few of the routes of enquiry that were posed prior to Psychosis and have begun to grow out of it. This work will act as a potential practical starting point in the growth of my doctoral research into the self within live art...