Texts from "Carbon Copy" Performance

Photos of the performance here, here, and here. Text descriptions here and here.

First Pre-Planned Public Performance

Carbon Copy

This weekend, I am announcing my first public typewriter performance. At this performance of typing, I will attempt to free-write a fictional narrative for an hour without pausing to consider the plot. I have been practicing, but do not have a memorized script, so I suspect the environment will affect the outcome of the narrative.

After each page is completed, the original (created with the antique typing tape on the machine-- practically illegible) will be archived into a folder. The carbon copy (which will be more legible for the carbon paper) will be given to an audience member. In this way, the story will be disseminated in a fragmented way into the public.

If you are in Dallas, the performance will take place at 11:30 AM, Saturday March 28th, at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel in the lobby bar. See you there!

First public performance of typing

41 second ecerpt from 3 minute looped video

Broken typewriter

http://www.hardtoremember.org/dlog/?file=87jhn

Typing- More details

I lift a page from the right and place it in the typewriter.

I type, left to right, from top to bottom.

I remove the paper from the typewriter and stack it, face down to the left.

I resist the urge to reread it. I smile when I see the spelling mistakes.

Typing

I have not been typing here lately. It is difficult to separate the personal and the public. There are things you don't want to say here, and you find you can't say them at all. To solve this, I am revisiting a project I have planned on and off for eleven years, a typing ritual on an actual typewriter. I have been typing two pages a day for about a week, and plan to do it as long as possible. More news to come down the like, and I decide what this piece will look like to the public, but for now, this is what it looks like.