The promise of something to come

This is the result of what I did yesterday. Fuck All. Its strange how sometimes no matter how much you want to do something you can’t. It is filled with potential. Sometimes to such an extreme that it make the act so unbearable. Can this potential be an event in its self?

It is that potential that I now realise was the start of Tim Crouch’s piece. The audience is conditioned to the location, they know that the performance has to start and therefore the potential of it happening makes it start.

Within my own work (pacing) it is this potential that makes an audience willing to watch a monotonous action for so long.

Again this makes me think about the importance of a ‘witness’.

In the interview with Tehching Hsieh in freeze the interviewer suggests that he felt no need to see ‘Clock piece’ and that by simply knowing that it was really happening was enough. Hsieh attributes this to the importance of a signal witness in spreading a message and starting a discussion. Is even this witness important? Can the potential of a work going to happen be enough?