'Come Swim'

Performance @ 'Collaboration Station' Norwich

Beaster Meets - Norwich Station

The Journey

Text generated on journey to Beaster:

195 knots; the man opposite on the train starts wanking. Dress. Stop tying knots.

Time loops
Rasping currents catch on past
Essential administration of lubrication facilitates future

Cold somatic slowing
Skin tallied and purple
Warrior indentations mark forehead, synchronized with anchor heavy as lead

Knots nestle curvature of durational spine
Repetition resonates reason
Tying time

407 knots to Beaster

Converse

B E a = Belonging; belonging is an essential component of event

Knot - Unit of speed equivalent to 1 nautical mile per hour

Fathom -
Unit of length equal to 6 feet used in depth of water/ To understand after much thought

League -
An agreement to combine/ To play each other over a period of time/ To join league or alliance/ A measure of distance by land aprox. 3 miles

(water) Log -
Official record of events during voyage/ Apparatus for determining speed consisting of a float attached to a knotted line wound round a reel
Logged - speed achieved
Logue - denoting discourse of a specific type: dialogue denoting compilation

'Lengths' @ Pear

Performance, Goose Fat, OHP projection, Gin, Swimming Pool water, Permanent Marker, Chalk Markers, Photos, Typewritter, Swimming Gogles

During this performance Beaster began to contemplate the distance between her, how this might be swam and the use of nautical miles.

Beaster also worked with the following text, generated whilst swimming, throughout the Performance and payed Actions:

I thought about washing you you washing me,
No lanes
Tonight we swim free

Remembering the horizon,
Alone in the pool
I pull our dingy to the island we rule

Water washes over, dark in weight
Your swimming to me
Tread water I wait

Litoral

Litoral; of, or relating to, or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake


Litoral, Vina del Mar, Chile

wildswimming

outdoorswimming