Fields of Performance: I’m keeping count of my cells to make sure I know if any go missing
Amy Clark presents I’m keeping count of my cells to make sure I know if any go missing as part of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Fields of Performance programme.
About Fields of Performance: I’m keeping count of my cells to make sure I know if any go missing
| 8th May 2025 to 9th May 2025 | |
| 10am - 4pm | |
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow City Centre G2 3DB |
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Fields of Performance is a dynamic collection of experimental and interdisciplinary works, ranging from intimate solos to collaborative pieces presented in studio theatre settings and in public spaces around Central Scotland.
This is the final year of the Contemporary Performance Practice programme, and this work honours the legacy of past and present students, their expansive range works and the diverse contexts they continue to engage with.
Experience the freshness and originality of a new wave of artists, ready to redefine the boundaries of performance.
I’m keeping count of my cells to make sure I know if any go missing.
by Amy Clark
It starts in the diaphragm. A contraction. A squeeze, in and down, like a snail retreating into its shell. Then the intercostal muscles mimic it, tightening, pulling in, wrapping around. The ribs push up and away, the ribcage expanding against its skin, their outline straining to be seen. The lungs drink greedily, gulping oxygen, inflating like a balloon. There’s a moment. And then it all shifts. The diaphragm relaxes, the muscles soften, ribs nestle back. The lungs exhale, their appetite finally satiated, and they deflate, ejecting the stale, unwanted air. And then it begins again. And again. And again, over 22,000 times a day.
Apparently, there are cells within cells within cells within cells within cells and it just continues forever, I guess. And someone told me that as it though it was the most exciting thing they’d ever heard because it’s like having galaxies and universes inside you, something about being made of stardust. But it made me feel a bit nauseous and irresponsible and soft and my eyes became like glue because I don’t understand it at all but apparently that doesn’t change the fact that I still am and was and will be all of these things.
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