Score No.14:
SMALL BRAIN TOUR

THE SCORE
PHASE-1:
Find a comfortable position and stay totally still in it for a given amount of time (session-1: 10 min; session-2: 30 min; session-3: 15 min; session-4: 90 min).
After you find the passion, keep on talking – continuously, with no stops/breaks/pauses, apart from the split second that separates one word from another.
Sustain. Get out of your front lobe and access your small brain: work from there. If you cannot find words fast enough, do gibberish. Just keep the flow.
Trust the flow. Observe the flow. Observe what and how you travel through.
PHASE-2:
What remains in your feeling?
Have you noticed that some words, structures and procedures were repeating?
Mark those that were the most persistent.
Move in space in line with the feeling that has remained and make a trance by a thread.
What is your trace like?
Which layers of your consciousness did you manage to access?
Is there any yet-uncovered space?
PHASE-3:
Invite other artists to make more sessions together, add their inputs – and see what happens. How does it develop?
Score No. 14 was created spontaneously, as we entered a completely empty gallery space where the festival was taking place. Initially, we had no premeditated idea, only trust in our creativity. First, we let ourselves feel the four white walls, the space was passable. On one of the walls, there were nails in three straight rows – clearly, something was hanging on them before. As we started with the first task (phase-1), it further seemed intuitively logical to start connecting those nails with a thread. By repeating the sessions for several times, in different intervals and lengths, each repetition brought a new insight into our inner journey. Since the rising web of threads was getting ever denser, many visitors who passed through our room got caught in it, either leaving the torn threads hanging down or trying to tie them back: in each case continuously rearranging the composition. In the following days, the score was continuously generating further questions and phases, material (text, movement, sound), formation in space, and finally accumulated into a collective performative-sound-spatial installation. In the final stage the threads were also equipped with pick-up microphones: the entire space transformed into an instrument.
The installation was neither a premeditated idea of ours, nor was it a determined art format. It is a result of our trust in play. Everything is there already.
Concept of the project: Radharani Pernarčič
Co-authors of the Score & performers: Srečko Jorš (Gregor Kamnikar), Radharani Pernarčič
Sound and joint performers: Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin, and the public.