Hic et nunc - request from Pirkko Huseman on the relevance of Here and Now in Dance (2012)

In my present work, 'We need to talk' I spend a lot of time talking. I talk about an event that happened back in 1977, an event I believe speaks profoundly about our desire to project ourselves into the future as much as it exposes our fear of disappearing - of becoming past. I talk about the 'Golden Record', that eclectic compilation of sounds, images and music meant to form a representation of life on planet earth and sent into space on Voyager spacecraft destined for any extraterrestrial life that may encounter it. I talk about my own journey through space and time by re-imagining personal anecdotes, re-shaping and making semi-fictional histories that run parallel to the record’s journey in outer space. I talk to escape and I talk to remain. I tell the epic story of the stranger who is accepted into a community and then later rejected. I talk about death. Alot. I talk about everything but here and now. When I stop talking I dance. My body doesn’t speak or it says everything, I’m not sure. I dance with music and I do Here and Now and pretty much nothing else. It becomes all that matters and we all become implicated in that movement. The present-ness emerges from the cloud of language, from all that meaning and insistence on before and after, like a relief. It is (always) becoming a clear picture or an image of being present.