A performance by Jenn Goodwin, with collaborators/performers:
Valerie Calam, Luke Garwood, Kristy Kennedy, Jared MacSween, Zoja Smutny and Heidi Strauss. Roxanne Luchak (video), Laura Nanni (dramaturg) and Camilla Singh (consultant).
Special Thanks to Jeremy Mimnagh, Walter Willems and Ame Henderson and The Theatre Centre, for their input in the development of the work.
Working across disciplinary institutions, Your Timing is Perfect was developed within the context of a lens-based gallery, traditionally imagined as a space for wall works. Through the conceptual frame of portraiture, the piece explores the possibility of connection across time — with strangers and friends, performers and audiences, between a sense of self and collective and the walls of a room. Performers in the work see themselves and their stories as objects, icons and images, they examine practices of looking, how we see and are asked to see. An intimate, 360 degree, durational performance/movement experience, audiences are welcome to come and go from the work at their leisure. Stay for ten minutes or for four hours.
Kim Simon- Curator
SCORE
Your timing is perfect and other wallworks
See everyone that walks in the room.
Offer instructions.
Welcome.
Introduce yourself and others.
You can ask questions.
The Story starts with We.
We are all here together. Right now. Not for long.
You are individual within a group.
Portraits can overlap when there is only 1 person talking. Do not overlap talking portraits.
Your portrait is a part of the whole.
The whole is your portrait.
You are in this together.
You can ask for help.
You influence the space, the order, the audience.
You are influenced by the space, the order, the audience.
Just being is enough.
Stay connected to the wall.
The wall is your partner.
The wall is your frame.
The wall is your canvas.
The wall is a restriction and an opportunity.
You can change the lighting.
You can add video.
You don’t have to stop with the song.
Let things take the time they need.
Vary your speed.
Be aware of time, or ignore it, get lost in it, fight it, welcome it.
Spend time together.
You are responsible for your experience
Document what is happening.
Start where it ended.
Keep going back to the writing.
Find opportunities to move.
Move during punctuation.
See each other.
Listen to each other.
Listen to the room.
What is happening is really happening.
Be affected.
Don’t pre-plan.
Make connections.
Make it yours.
Fight/struggle/aim for presence.
Let what is happening in the room inspire you.
Doing nothing is something.
It doesn’t always have to make sense.
Try to be honest (most of the time).
Seeing you search, receive and recover is ok.
Everyone is a participant.
It is ok to struggle with presence and performance.
Discomfort, uncertainty and boredom are valid.
Entertainment is too.
Notice.
Pay attention.
Accept.
The small moments make up the big picture
Every day is epic