ABSTRACT
This piece reflects through the experience of creating and presenting one-to-one performance over some 14 years, weaving fragments and snatches of memory to suggest how a succession of individual encounters builds into a collective audience held in the memory of the performer. Evoking the affective labour and intensity of the work, and the ever-present potential for its fragile connection to break down, it points to the work of listening at the core of the practice and the performer’s responsibility to be present as audience to the participant, both in the moment of the encounter and in memory.
