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Long Doll
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Long Doll is a 14 foot doll. When thrown in the air, her long limbs mutely trace the landscape but leave no mark behind. In motion, Long Doll performs a graphic score, a vertical transcription of energy. Her light-weight form works with gravity to offer a half second tableau on each throw: long enough to notate the force of the body that threw her.
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Long Doll is a transitional object between language and movement. In action, the doll operates within a currency of under-articulation: chancing upon references to symbolic writing while tumbling through an unpredictable alphabet of metamorphic forms.
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In considering language as the material for movement or movement as a cipher for language, Long Doll has become a tool for transcription: a means of scoring performer relationship to surface and space in time. Duration and force are the only parameters of this making. The Long Doll throws are ephemeral markings, legible in motion but lost in notation.
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Images 1-6: Long Doll Throws, Blauwe Brug, Amsterdam, 2004
Images 7-11: Dartington College, Totnes, UK, 2004
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The following works were performed as interventions with no predetermined time or date and no invited public.