Describe the Space

15.40pm

Could you describe the space in a minute?

What I originally imagined was at the back there was a screen here with a light behind it. So you can silhouette us. Over here there are piles of glasses on the stage which we make into a runway. Over here we have clocks hanging in a row. LA. London. New York.

Could you do it again? This time I'm going to ask you to do nothing for a minute. Then you're going to have 30 seconds to put in all the things you didn't put in the first time. What are you looking at us for? Try to be still.

OK so at the back there is a screen here and it's got our silhouettes on it. Over here ther's a runway that's been made out of sunglasses. Over here there's the clocks of the world. New York. Paris. Tokyo. With all the times underneath.

You've got to decide when a minute's up then you've got to describe what's in the space. 3. 2. 1. Go.

It's 1977 and th Clash have just released 1977. And they're standing by the wall. Over here is the screen which is impenetrable by anything except really small atoms. Over here is a silhouette of me and Tim sitting like gnomes with little fishing rods.

So can you do it this time in a minute but you can't stand anywhere for more than five seconds and it's really hot in here. Can you do it so you're in a small ball. Like you're really small. Over there. On the floor. You're like a small ball. Yeah that's good. You've got to stay like that for a minute.

There's a blue sky. There's lots of blue sky band there's clouds as well. Big and fluffy. And flying from the clouds are paper aeroplanes which we made earlier. And also over there there's a stool and you have to stand on it sometimes. But you have to take your trousers down before you stand on it. And over here there are lots of cameras which flash. Lots of flashes. And over here there's a weather forecast.

Now you're sinking. The floor's made out of quick sand.

There's black symbols of clouds. And they turn into white symbols. Then they have little lines coming out of them like this.

And when I wrote this performance I was thinking about lots of famous people. Sophia Loren. It's all mirrors. They're all digital cameras now but they've all got mirrors in them. This is really difficult. I'm going to stop it now. I don't want to carry it on. It isn't working. We're going to have to try something new. Something with a history.