Create a space

Peggy Phelan 'Long commitment not to' (Certain fragments)

Exploration – Illuminating – Discover – Transmissions – Investigate – Ignite - Witnesses (Audience) - ‘Ignite the conscience of an ethical observer’ – Makers – Escapist - ‘Traffics in Fiction’ - ‘Echoes of the real world’ – Operates - Map. ‘Structuring metaphor’ – Places – Tour – Sites – Strange – Reflecting – City – Layers - ‘Individual Residents’ - ‘The challenger space shuttle had blown up in Manchester in 1985’ - Spectator’s - consciousness ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ - Crashed – Company - Witness - ‘Mapping space time in this manner transforms history (and travel) into an actively composed set of personal stories and not a passively experienced set of external events and locations’ – Group -‘Events of the rest of the world comes to them sizzling across fibre-optic cables, electronic pixels, wire services, and satellite dishes’ ‘These events go whizzing by’ - ‘Processed by some reading-machine’ ‘Decipher these codes’ - ‘This reading-machine is both technological and affective, both collective and personal’ - ‘The territory between the real and the phantasmatic’ - ‘Like a net flung floating across two continents’ – Generations – Capture - ‘the fusion that allows a mechanical pump to keep our otherwise irregular hearts beating’ - ‘become witness to events that you may only encounter here on the pages of this book’ - Encountering Reanimates - ‘we rediscover their force in our ongoing present’ -Snap shots - ‘To solicit an ethical witness in a theatre event requires one to trust that the border of the performance exceeds its spatial and temporal boundaries’ - ‘in the process of becoming’

Excerpts and words taken from 'Performing Questions, Producing Witness' by Peggy Phelan featured in Tim Etchells book Certain Fragments.
Scanning the page I drew out words and sentences I felt related to our piece.