http://www.asmithontheinternet.com en-gb asmithontheinternet.com 2010-4-9T00:00:00Z asmithontheinternet.com http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#61166 Where I amBeen back for a week or so now but still good to post about and reflect on a tour to the UK with a week of performances in and around BAC for the young people of Wandsworth of hvor er du or where are you as it became in English. The classes and responses to the work were great and it was great to be on a very different territory with the show and see it play out in pretty much the same way for 9 10 and 11 year olds as it does for kids of those ages in Norway and in Russia. The main difference as Amund pointed out was that he was the person from another country in the mix there whereas its usually me.We did our all ages performance of the show at BAC on Tuesday the 9th to a great response. Thanks to everyone who was there. A nice mention and reflection on some of the work from Chris Goode on his blog here. Thanks for that Chris.On the Thursday we played a faith school. The head teacher had looked at the script and asked us to amend a bit of it as there is a section in the perf... 2010-3-23T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#59303 back to schoolAt the moment Im going back to school. Its much more fun than I remember it...I spent last week in the S248rTr248ndelag region touring schools with my show innnvander a performance that tells stories about what happened to me when I moved to Norway. It was a great week. Thanks everyone in S248rTrondelag who helped make it happen.6 schools. 14 performances. About 990 kids. These spaces.And this week Ive been getting ready for a trip to London to perform where are you for the young people of Wandsworth.Back to school. 2010-2-26T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#58136 on forms For the last couple of days theres been some welcome sun over Oslo. It makes the snow sparkle and walking in its light it seems to blow away the darkness and greyness of previous days. Its still bloody cold here mind. I even got an email from a Norwegian colleague today saying how bored they were of winter. After the initial rush of New Year Ive been quiet here over the last couple of weeks. Ive been busy. Apart from what is the continual process of adjusting to life with a new life what I seem to have mostly been doing in the first part of this year is filling in forms. Ive still got a couple more to do in fact each of these in Norwegian skjema which must relate to schemes containing a potential idea or proposal for the future. So Ive been scheming. Getting on with my schemes. A quick look at wikipedia reveals that as well as being the father of the computer it was Charles Babbage who is also believed to be the originator of the form. So thanks to him ... 2010-2-10T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#56582 I really enjoyed this interview with Brian Eno in The Observer over the weekend. There were plenty of gems in it but what made me smile the most was when he talked about how he found it both disappointing and reasurring that on hearing some tapes of himself talking 35 years ago he thought that he was pretty much talking about the same things today.When working and thinking about something new as I am trying to do at the moment I can sometimes feel something similar to this arise in me. There is always something the same at its core and if youre not feeling positive it can be depressing to think that youre just repeating yourself. On the good days though its all about deepening and strengthening something. Continuing your enquiry. I think it was Robert Wilson who said that it was all one work.Some hours after reading the interview I wrote this down which I think might be said to be a good summation of the form of anything I have made or tried to make since about 2001Here. There. Now. Yo... 2010-1-20T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#55993 its good to know Been thinking a bit about sprituality fate and destiny that kind of thing. Complex and unclear thoughts. Just like what I posted here a couple of days ago about expertise I think they are probably linked. I met someone in the street yesterday and had a conversation and in the course of the conversation she said how great it is that we dont really know anything. I responded that I thought do know some things really and how I thought that was a good thing. And then later as I was walking home I thought more and thought about how not knowing can sometimes seem to fulfil a spiritual and practical need. Create a solace and security in a world that can sometimes seem to overpower and overwhelm us. It made me think about another phrase that sometimes bothers me which is live for the moment. Its difficult isnt it Im all for presentness and I think I understand how living for the moment can be a good thing. I understand also how this along with not ... 2010-1-12T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#55825 An expert in not being an expertIn the last couple of days Ive been thinking a lot about notions of what it might be to be an expert. Most obviously this comes from some reading Ive been doing around the work of Rimini Protokoll in preparation for a workshop that Im participating in at the end of the week with Daniel Wetzel from the company. Though I have shared a couple of festival programmes with their shows due to performances on different days or in one instance having to do a get in which in my world doesnt amount to much Ive never been able to see what they actually do just heard good things about it.So after being invited to this workshop Im excited about attending. Being in it rather than running it meeting some other practitioners looking at and participating in some other techniques and thinking about and around some of the question marks that they present. Whatever language you use to try to describe what they do will I think be met by some interesting philosophical questio... 2010-1-10T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#55459 back to schoolToday is what Evan Davies referred to on the Today programme this morning as the great return. Though many including Evan have been working their way through the festive season to amongst other things keep everyone fed and watered entertained in presents and be able to drive on roads mostly free from snow there is a feeling in the air today that a lot more people are returning to their posts and that everything is getting back to something we might call normal. Though I know there are some who dont I absolutely love the feeling it gives. Ive had a great festive season but the sound of kids at the school at the back of our flat is back and Im happy about it. Ive sent and received some work emails. Ive spent a couple of hours looking over notes and thoughts for a new piece of work and as a result had a fantastically inspiring conversation with Maja. Ive had a good day and I hope you have too. Heres to 2010 really beginning. 2010-1-4T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#55374 thinking bigBeen thinking a lot about Tim who is currently in Los Angeles where hes about to do a run of An Oak Tree. You can find the website for the run here where theres also a blog so we can follow how its all going. I have very fond memories of making An Oak Tree. This was the first time we worked together and we spent our days in the upstairs room of The White Hart pub in Barnes. I always think that our work together has a big effect on the stuff I do solo and I think of those days as being particularly instrumental in shaping where I am now. Back then a huge part of the working model we set or stumbled upon was to seemingly ask each other questions of everything. In some sense we have followed this model ever since readdressing reinterrogating and reshaping it to suit each new play that Tim has come up with. They are gentle questions fun questions and sometimes pretty hard questions. Its from those questions we discuss and if we end up thinking that we dont need something in... 2010-1-3T00:00:00Z http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/page2.htm#55287 Why NowIt feels about 3 years later than everyone else but Ive decided to start a blog. Im not usually one for resolutions round this time of year but hey new decade new family new blog.So here it is. And what is its intention Well I suppose that remains to be seen exactly. I want to write a bit about some thoughts on theatre and performance on my work and so a little about life. Dont think though Im going to be telling you about whats happening round my flat or in my local coop unless I feel its relevant. Though actually typing that I think that those that know me know that sometimes its exactly these things that for me become relevant. So maybe a little about my flat and the coop.Anyway some context. The end of the last year in fact the whole of last year was a big one for me. In work and in life. I managed to make another solo piece the next two days of everything which I am very proud of and that some of you might get a chance to see in 2010. I continued my collaboration with Tim C... 2010-1-1T00:00:00Z