created in response to an interview painter Jasper Johns conducted with Mark Rosenthal, dealing with the creation of a painting

Specifically, art is either a complaint or do something else questions the painter’s relationship to representation and how he addresses space and time within his compositions. As a dance artist, I am concerned with representation, embodiment and composition, so I was attracted to this piece. In 2004, I organized a first draft for two dancers. Over the years, plastic orchid has performed varied versions of this work. With questions sitting at the centre of the score, every incarnation is different and it’s developed into a tool that re-focuses our practice every time we perform as it. How do we weave relationships between our bodies and the sonic environment to create and transform ephemeral moments of representation in space over time?