What I wrote about 'WEAREPERFORMING' to my PERFORMERS

We are performing to be ourselves.
Noting the contradict, we are doing nothing, but being ourselves at the same time, the act of performing gives us the possibility to be insincere, to be anything, to keep all the possibilities open, to not obey, to fuck with the social codes.
How to feel ‘performative’? How to come to that slight difference of performing to be yourself and being yourself? I suggest to give little physical tasks, things to pay attention to etc. but you never have to stay with any of this, as long as you know you choose to abandon, and probably replace. Most importantly Never to read what you are doing, never to identify with any ‘character’ never to ‘do’ anything.
In juxtapose to this, how not to fall in the trap to be performing (witch includes a lot of this reading what you are doing) you are not proposing anything, no clarity no substance or subject there is no point (high or low) you are you (and that contains a million things including what you are not)
The hardest work is not to be captured, not to be framed boxed or identified. It is a constant fight, with yourself and your surroundings. Therefore it is also very important to always and completely acknowledge the current situation you find yourself in without defining and without naming what you yourself are doing (we do not refer to what we are doing, as soon as we name it we kill it) we can thrive on confusion and mystery, again this not being a ‘topic’ we remain intentionles. Don’t take responsibility for what you might be referring to, what you might be insinuating, don’t even read, look at the room from your eyes, your point of view and meet the rest of the room.
- You are a housecat, you are very important and you have almost nothing to do
In the line of not being captured (not meaning having to be lost). Another thing that I propose is having ‘tricks’. Thinking of old time geisha’s (knowing that the very word geisha means artist and a geisha is perceived as a walking piece of art) we can bring and prepare ‘tricks’ in the largest sense of that word. A prepared song to sing or to play, a text, a dance, something to show (pictures) topics to talk about, agreements amongst each other etc. Most important is to fight the perception, of our selves and of our audience that this is the show, that this is the moment of performance. Again a geisha doesn’t start performing when she plays her instrument, she is performing constantly, no switch on or switch off. Not meaning you can not put importance or value into what you are doing, but you can poor a cup of tea with as much importance as you play Chopin on the piano and visa versa. In addition to that, not to plan or put pressure to use the tricks, they are not more valuable then simply being present, they are not the cherries, they are just tricks to rely on in moments where you feel you might be captured (in doing nothing, in not performing or whatever else)
Let yourself be confused. We are in a performance space, this space will be held like this by our audience, they are there in the role of an audience. You are there in the role of performer, but you are performing to be yourself, you that made an appointment to be there 1,2,3 of April at 19:00 for instance. You will transform this performance space into your living room, your bedroom a bar, a social gathering. You are not offering anything (naked ambition, you want the attention but you don’t want to work for it, even better you have no talent to support your ambition) Enjoy this confusion, you are performing to be yourself, you offer the audience nothing you invite them to take the power to not stay in their role of an audience and approach you as ‘the social’ instead of ‘the performer’ same time, you want to have the attention. Everything that is going on when you have lunch at the 4th floor is going on, everybody you know, you know everything that happens happens, but there is a difference, people offered us, you the leadership over this moment and make it clear, coherent, coming to a point etc, (as life is not) we choose to live in front of them. What if we drop all the rehearsed crap and just deal with each other (like Madonna says) still we have our tricks, we can do some rehearsed crap (we can bring our underwear to have something to talk about) It is the ultimate moment contradict and somehow this so restraining highly judgemental environment could supply the biggest freedom. As you could say, why are you looking at this moment like this, why do you insist that this is a performance you can say, why do you take this so personal this is just a performance.