A New Kind of Daytime

A NEW KIND OF DAYTIME collides projected video, live performance and sound.

It’s a speculation on a neglected reality run by faulty AI.

A woman (played by Thomas) speaks to camera from a comfy chair. She may be in a care home, or some kind of mismanaged experience farm. She speaks defiantly in riddles and loops about the rules of her confinement:

There are gestures I am not supposed to make,

There are directions in which I am not supposed to look,

But I was tired, I met its eye…I may have opened an attachment.

She wears things inside her head that she is not supposed to fiddle with, but she does fiddle, triggering collapses between the registers of her space inside the video and the live space of the audience where a fierce, wrong kind of Nurse (also played by Thomas) presides over a higher-level reality with megaphone, cryptic commentary and a casio keyboard. In a 3^rd, parallel reality, a young woman (played by Lucia Coppola) is experimenting with a piece of automated weather that fell into her room. It might serve as a communication device between her and the older woman—but it soon gets out of hand…

Abstract motifs and elements from the video are continually falling into the live space of the audience possibly triggering wonder, laceration and absurdity. This is a work-in-progress, experimenting with new forms of hybridity and there is likely to be a Part 2 and a re-formulated single screen version.

I woke in the middle of the night and the night was yellow, the sky was the colour of pee.

I woke in the middle of the night and it was a new kind of daytime, and it was time, it was the final day and that day was on forever.

A New Kind of Daytime was first performed at BIG THROW#2 at The Horse Hospital, London