Through this performance I experienced what Steve Connor calls“ slow going”. Connor differentiates“ going slowly” from“ slow going”. The first is“ something we attempt to do to time;“ slow going” is what time does to us, through us”( Connor, 2014,116).
I feel that it is important to find a language and a voice with which to be able to articulate the studio practice avoiding what I had imagined were a prescribed set of rules.
It seems that“ going slowly” is something that we can choose to do and as Connor says“ has a good reputation”( Connor, 2014, 116). It is what is advocated in meditation / Zen / mindfulness. It is deemed to be good for us to escape the fast pace of western life. However,“ slow going” seems to be something that is imposed on us. In“ Slow going” there is a“ loss of temporal relativity”( Connor, 2014, 118) in which time seems to move slower than it actually is ……. And we don’ t like it … we stress about it … we want to gather up speed, to get on.