"when i went overseas, and then came back again it made me so aware of my connection to place (that being melbourne) it's knowing the names of the streets, its some kind of undercurrent in the atmosphere...sometimes i get chills just from sitting in a certain spot and letting the world rush over me..." Adelaideyes connection to place is something that is slowly built up over a long time, these fleeting roadside moments in other lands and peoples dreamscapes are held briefly in wonder for a moment, but it takes time to really be somewhere.
Humans are funny creatures, we cant keep up with this fast world we have created, because essentially we are very slow.
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This space is for my thoughts and observations on travel and un-travel.
About the author
I am full of bones and ideas and memories, histories, an ever present now and slow movement forward.
Thankyou for coming in here, my name is Chay-Ya if you didnt know, pleased to meet you.
Current location
terra australis incognita
Forms I am interested in
Improvised movement, public installations and interventions, mark making, mapping, cartography, spoken word, natural poetics, inherent poetry, the space from which language begins, form, sound, voice, urge, intuit, physicality, the unspoken, the knowing, the tactile and visual, braille, sign language, gesticulation
Noise and silence. movement and stillness. inbetweens, transitions and in-place-transit.
Cooking, growing, harvesting, collecting, feasting, dinner parties in the middle of the street or a field or a forest, fermentation, propagation, slow cooking in ceramic pots, biodynamics, permaculture, nutrition, wholefoods, botanical illustration, bookbinding, printing and reproduction, periodicals, chapbooks, artists markets, writers festivals, literature, libraries, books as houses for ideas and observations, simplicity, engaged process, documentation, dialogue, light, sound.
Noise and silence. movement and stillness. inbetweens, transitions and in-place-transit.
Cooking, growing, harvesting, collecting, feasting, dinner parties in the middle of the street or a field or a forest, fermentation, propagation, slow cooking in ceramic pots, biodynamics, permaculture, nutrition, wholefoods, botanical illustration, bookbinding, printing and reproduction, periodicals, chapbooks, artists markets, writers festivals, literature, libraries, books as houses for ideas and observations, simplicity, engaged process, documentation, dialogue, light, sound.
Stillness in Flight Archives
Chay-Ya in other spaces
possible ways through time
its all open again. the future exists.
currently doing regular classes in
skinner release technique, butoh and body mind centering.
am reading books about physiology, improvisation and of course poetry.
Nuances and extremes of the human voice weekend workshop at the Body Voice Centre in Footscray, 27-29 November.
currently doing regular classes in
skinner release technique, butoh and body mind centering.
am reading books about physiology, improvisation and of course poetry.
100ono/100ONO one night only exhibition of photographs, prints, paintings and performance with Antonia Green.
Monday 23rd November 6-9pm at Per Square Metre Gallery in Collingwood.
Nuances and extremes of the human voice weekend workshop at the Body Voice Centre in Footscray, 27-29 November.
Projects and festivals that Im excited about right now
"Sanctuary"
This is an accompanying part of an exhibition I did in 2006 at the Workshop in Melbourne.
"A perfect stillness where everything moves," exhibition catalogue from show in 2007 at Bus Gallery. limited edition of 200, hand numbered and signed, 36 pages.(To see a bigger preview click on the small one above). Currently stocked in Melbourne at Sticky, Brunswick Bound, Lupa and I Dream A Highway.
2 comments:
i love that the person talking about melbourne is called adelaide
and today sara told me that some people say that a person's life energy, or spirit travels at the pace of a camel.... i agree
yes camel... or even human paced...before we invented all these neat ways to travel really fast we used to travel only by foot... and a friend once told me that when native american indians travel they used to have 'rest days' to wait for their spirits to catch up with them. and then they keep walking...its amazing how long it takes for all of you to catch up with the rest of you when you catch a plane somewhere...
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