Comments on: The Difference between Departure and Abandonment

By: kristian

kristian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:06:32 +0000

Thanks Carol,
The ‘flaw’ may lie in thinking of improvisation as a practice. Improvisation is something that occurs IN the practice, and the practice (for me) is a whole event.
Action and thought, purposeful or motiveless is the only way improvisation can occur. So far in my experience I have yet to find a way that improvisation in its myriad of distinct ways of occurring, is not an intrinsic dynamic within thought and action.
In foregrounding improvisation within my practice I have ended up working on presence and consciousness.
I guess what I am saying is that improvisation does not occur by itself, it doesn’t exist as a singularity.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:52:31 +0000

In relation to the above discussion of utopic practices and my earlier reply you might also like to look at Foucault’s ‘Of Other Spaces’ on heterotopias.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:28:40 +0000

So improvisation is purposeless yet must hold to its directed intent and connection to audience in order to be effective? There are so many contradictions in this flawed practice.