Denkruimte II Gedeelde Gedachten / Room for Thought II Thinking Together


This performance is a sequel to my first stream of consciousness performance on my typewriter.
The isolation I entered into during my first performance became a reality during the lockdown, due to corona, that started right after.


I knew I wanted to do the performance again in a new way. This time it wasn't important for me to look for the isolation but precisely to get out of my isolation. I wanted to interact with the audience through typing with them. How do you influence each other's writing and to what extent do you open yourself to others? How pure does a stream or conciousness stay if you know that someone else can read along? Since typing in the same
space did not go physically I performed it online in a document where we both could type in at the same time. So sometimes I typed with people hundreds of people miles away from me, mentally intimately close but physically far away.

Performance
People could register in a time schedule in which everyone got either 30 or 60 minutes to type with me. The only rule was: you can't stop typing until the time is up. During this period we saw and communicated through a video connection. This is how we felt each other's presence and we could be in touch if needed. After each period I and the . read participant each other's texts and selected approx. 4-10 sentences from them that and read them to each other. I created a video work of these fragments in which the viewer listens and looks at the fragments of text as they were written and read. 10 people participated in this performance
not counting myself.

Research questions: What thoughts do people share and how do they influence
each other?

link to video work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5i7k2jYF4

Skykey, 2023