Author Archives: Jordan Edward Tallis

Music for 18 Musicians

Researching into sound was quite a challenging area as we did not want to influence  the intimacy explored in the performance. We moved away from the idea of emotive sounds and pushed towards more minimalistic textures, structures, harmonies and dissonance. … Continue reading

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Feeling intimate with a media text?

The media is a huge social entity, affecting a mass number of people worldwide. In terms of intimacy one would consider that it can only be found through physical acts and states of mind between two people, however one would … Continue reading

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Can Telephones Be A Medium For Creating Intimacy

Thinking about ideas of performance during a workshop, I began to think of ways that would take the simplistic things we do in life that could show some form of intimacy. I had thought of the idea of having a … Continue reading

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The Power of Cinema and the ideal of sitting next the ‘other.’

Now and again as an audience saturated with media and entertainment, Cinema is a huge social gathering to which we can all come together in an intimate space to watch a film of any genre. Sitting down next to a … Continue reading

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Olivier De Sagazan: Identity and Transfiguration.

Exploring different performances, I came across one that stood out to me more than anyone I’d seen so far. Olivier De Sagazan is a performance artist who provokes a very different way of experimental performance, through the use of make-up … Continue reading

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