Below is an article I wrote on the subject of Live Art and Children, talking about my own practice and experience of making work with and around my kids.
I’ve just worked three days with my new collaborator.
He’s not good at listening. He is extremely definite about how things should be done. He’s doesn’t like a lot of my ideas. He’s impatient. He hates rehearsing. He doesn’t sit still.
He constantly asks about lunch.
He never owns up to his farts.
I’m making a performance with my nine year old son. I can safely say it is my most challenging collaboration yet.
From a white sheet shielding myself from my own glistening insides; a 4lb thing was held aloft. Whisked away for rubbing, checking; so tiny he couldn't breathe unaided.
He mewed, quiet but strong, like a kitten. We named him Felix.
