Initial proposal

  • Flowers and their value - impermanence creates meaning/value, fleeting nature

    Life cycles – how long does it take a flower to grow? And die?

    City spaces/shared spaces – all the spaces we share with invisible strangers, leaving influence on one another without knowledge or material trace

    Shared histories – between individuals, how are these signified? intergenerationality

    Connection/conversation – to connect individuals

    Butterfly effect –growth/change, knock-ons, cons

  • Conversation – performance to IGNITE and provide a FOUNDATION – research&performance

    Multi-media – audio-visual

    Audience reflection – everyone has a diferent experience, relatability but also personal

    People watching – reflection on others – personal into connection with others

  • Social concepts – connection and consequence

    Social/personal

    Metaphor

    Situational

    Site-specific/happenings/situational

    Personal into socio-political

  • Installation/live art – simultaneous, or separate

    Verbatim

    Participation/small audiences

    Audio/listening/music

    Happenings

    Visual dimension

    Live display/recorded elements in conversation

  • METAPHORS

    Fig Tree by Sylvia Plath

    Rose from Beauty & the Beast

    INSTALLATION

    Wish Tree @ Tate Modern

    Strangers Project @ JFK

    Cadence @ MoMA

    COMPANIES

    Darkfield – audio experiences

    WRITING

    ‘A Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please’ from NYT Modern Love

    Doppelgangers by Naomi Klein

    Nora Ephron

    LIVE ART

    Marta Minujín + Happenings

    - La Menesunda

    - La Destrucción

    QUOTES
    ‘when the city stops evolving the city dies’

    ‘everything is connected in life the point is to know it and to understand it’

    ‘when you’re young you just believe there will be many people who you’ll connect with and later in life you realise it only happens a few times’

     

    LOCATIONS

    Flower Markets

    - Columbia Road

    - New Covent Garden

    - Outside Embankment station

  • Flowers holding memories! And say things without words.

    How we can create/facilitate connection

    Sharing stories and memories

    Why people love flowers, when they’re fated – maybe this is why

    Individualism and collectivism – how can gestural flowers close the divide?

    Growth, change, evolution – in nature, and in people

    How shared spaces can we traced and documented

    KEY WORDS

    Connection, Conversation, Impermanence