Amaara Raheem

WAKE MAKE is a commemoration for The Performance Arcade 2016 and 2017 in the form of a limited edition artist book, and momentary performance. It is an acknowledgement that live performance disappears, and also stays. How is the afterlife of performance? How does performance live, die, linger, haunt, reincarnate? Working with the pulse and passage of time, with balloons and breath, with incantations and repetitions in processes, WAKE MAKE is a call to attend to live performance experience and its afterlife. A once only speechless transmission of the afterlife of live performance will be presented from the upper level of the Stage Space in the passage of ten passing minutes. WAKE MAKE asks how a commemorative book and a short, surging, speechless “book reading” might throw into orbit new relations of attending to life, death and performance, before it’s too late.

Mick Douglas is a designer who works with performance.

WE ARE PERFORMING
the afterlife of live performance
a clearing
a rite, a ritual, a response, a replay a taste
a pause
a toast

Dear Audience,

Is that a real woman under there or is it a dream I once had? Is that woman searching for something, is she searching for me? For you? For us? Once upon a time, a woman swapped her legs for a voice. Once upon a time, her seal swapped her skin for a husband. Once upon a time, a mother left her home and returned to true home, the sea.

Is that her? The one who lives beneath? Or is it me? Travelling this distance with you.