ah! The weather is amazing. I am procrastinating on my grad school applications and enjoying a well-crafted Bay Arean americano. So this should be short- really I should be done before my caffeine peak, so that I can use that induced high for the good of the application process and not rambling here.

I saw Sara Shelton Mann's solo performed by Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos Jr. I truly enjoyed it. I think it would benefit being performed in a larger space than the Joe Goode Annex, which Sara was hinting at earlier in the day. I would see it again. Maybe 5 more times.

I also participated in Melinda Ring's project Mouse Auditions. I have tons to say about that. About all it encompassed regarding voyerism, auditions, director versus interpreters, power agreements, and the humiliation within those topics. I think there are ways it could have been better executed. I think it would have been very different in another context (i.e. a more urban setting or a more populated place such as a museum). It was first put on at the Whitney Biennial. I am sure the outcome there was vastly different. I felt some loss as to what my part was in it and the why I should invest in it became unclear. Usually in the context of an audition there is competition and a sense of "pick me. pick me!!" But here, we all understood there would never be any picking. So I think the tension diluted for this. The public viewing definitely gave me the sense of performing, but it wasn't clear what I was performing. So, maybe Ring was going for that lack of clarity and I think it brought forth some interesting experiences for the participants and the audience, but I also think it clouded it and made it in some regards, uninteresting. I hope I see Melinda Ring continue to investigate this project and find ways to make it thrive and be at it's potential.

I am working on my solo, GOLD. I am finding my way out of the cream-of-wheat-type-confusion and back into precision and clarity.

at Lobot Gallery, on The Fountain.