The Long Wave Solo Quad

Monday 1/21 D/D notes – Damaris
MLK Day
Miriam, Bobby and Eliza absent
No outside gaze

The Long Wave Solo Quad

Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:30 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:30 – 9:00 AUNTS making
9:00 - 10:00 Housekeeping/Discussion

Solo Quad with Lights, Candles and Rocks
The evening’s Aunts making was devoted to a long wave (45 minute) solo quad. Introduced into the prop list were five clip lamps and a box of votive candles (also specifically set out by BD were the rocks). No specific menu was given, yet it seemed that all evolutions happened organically. Especially lovely were periods of time with no one in the space. Initially the Quad was started with the usual Soundscore but was eventually turned off.

Lighting seemed to highten the atmosphere and set up some expectations – things were more theatrical. Light was seen as framing and character, but most often as object or performer. EB noted that lights were the dominant theme of the Aunt.

DW wonders, in the “director-less” situation of the quads, what are the signals in our culture that it’s time to stop boycotting influence and allow for over all design choices and duets?
BD requests that next week we return to this solo Quad Aunt with maybe at points someone else being in the director’s chair. CR had stimulus to create some new Aunts using some of this material. Or, what are the components today that we’re going to bring forward, not recreate the Aunt in it’s entirety. Are there little structures that could be dropped in to squeeze it? “Call Backs” from moments of old Aunts (or units that we could all recognize just as we recognize what the request to flock is, could we recognize named sections or units of Aunts for later retrieval? What has made it into our mythology?).

Talk of feedback and critique/ post AUNT discussion
We did not formally offer any feedback or critique on the solo quad, not have we been regularly giving feedback. Some voices noted that there is a desire for that, personally and on an overall compositional view level:
CR talks about the edge of staying slow and developing the culture. For the enjoyment of doing it? Or to compose something for an audience?
BD reminds that according to the manifesto the Aunt is temporally finished, BUT it may excite us to do something more.
EB wonders what would the criteria be for giving critique? To what end are we giving feedback?
KK declared that she needed feedback from time to time. TR suggests that “one” could ask the group specific questions on what “you” need feedback on.

Housekeeping
* Sunday 1/27 is a dinner at Barbara’s from 6-8pm
* The little jobs list needs to be revisited for the semester
* We agreed to expand the invitation of the Gaze to include the arts faculty in the building and all alumni as well as personal friends. Personal friends would reserve a sign up through their dd member, alumni would email Bobby.