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31.10

The 31.10 installation is an ongoing collaboration with McColl-Misme. The first performance took place at the Artaud Centre for Performance on December 15th 2010 as part of the Masters in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel. It revolves around the idea of combining multiple different media to create an interlocking web of patterns and rhythms and was essentially made of 3 components:


1) Two projected videos shown on perpendicular walls (the corner of the room) – one taking the form of a horizonal strip and the other a vertical strip. This footage featured and was edited by Misme with filming assistance from McColl.

2) A manipulated recording of a poem written by Misme and voiced by me. The recording was then fed through four speakers and then manipulated by ducking and shifting small segments of audio to create a feeling of movement and instability.

3) A 3D object placed to create a triangular formation with the two projected videos. This element also draws attention to the idea of rupture within the piece.


The poem itself is autobiographical, but presented in such a way that it’s not clear who’s life is being discussed. What follows is the text as written by Misme, specifically without punctuation so at to leave the emphasis up to the reader.


loud but hazy penetrating the nebulous warm and wet space the imminent periphery opens to the blur bright cold cacophony leaps against the wall to the surface of her skin and inside her zero zero point zero one new acclimatization is required she beholds a newly fluttering cadence of shapes that are yet meaningless zero point zero two zero point zero three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine thirty, one one point one one point two three four five six propelled upon the liminal space she softens while intertwined her hands tracing an invisible loop slowly she looses her sense of gravity one point seven one point eight nine ten eleven two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten point one ten point two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven abruptly her body folds meticulously moving and falling in the bleak distance ten point eleven twelve twelve point one fix vertical axe and frozen depths silence prevails twelve point one twelve point two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven thirteen fourteen fifteen fifteen point one fifteen point two three four five six seven eight nine she becomes north an eruption of patterns flow around and inside her fifteen point ten fifteen point eleven sixteen sixteen point one sixteen point two three four duplication of a former data body skin environment no longer fits together inside a sphere sounds grumbles and shapes slide away sixteen point five sixteen point six seven eight nine ten eleven seventeen seventeen point one seventeen point two three four five six seven erratic particles heavily pulse pushed in the threshold soma enters an unfamiliar zone where the sensation of a new language is compelled seventeen point eight seventeen point nine ten eleven eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-three point one twenty-three point two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven the longing and voracity of an eruption of patterns flowing around and inside her has emerged she becomes west twenty-four twenty four point one twenty-four point two three what was taught thought and necessary is no longer functional morphing shedding her skin to delete previous primary functions twenty-four point four twenty-four point five six seven eight nine ten eleven twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine thirty thirty-one thirty one point one thirty one point two three four five foreground isn’t concrete lines dissolves sensing is no longer perceived body oscillates slow pulse eyes flatter but stillness is thirty-one point six thirty-one point seven eight nine ten

You can find out more details of Misme’s thoughts behind the piece at mccollmisme.wordpress.com

Below is an example of one of the videos used. Sadly it is only two of the four audio channels, but the piece is going to be performed for a second time at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for the ‘Beyond Text: Making and Unmaking Event’ on the 27th jan 2011, so if you wish to experience the next incarnation please come and join us.