I am a different person in the mirror
The mirror looks back

Performance is another type of conversation, an alternative way of talking, conveying ideas, emotions, communicating the self to another. In talking mirror I engaged in a very different way with others, the performance provided me with expanded ways of relating to people in the space. For example I looked lucidly at men, making direct eye contact, something I would normally avoid as it tends to attract predatory attention. Through the mirror, looking at men with an explicit intent was possible! The conversations also allowed for an openness and transmission that was liberating. In parallel with my experience of eyeless performance, I found the use of an object and an enactment (from lived experience and taken out of context) allowed for a new way of being and acting and the generation of new relationships. Using image references directly from life (as in both these performances) also re-imagines the function of memory. These remembered images held certain meaning in the past and are now re-created in the present, to function in a different way and to hold new implications and worth. In this way, the creative act of making a performance from the references of life positively transforms both the life remembered and the new social context in which it is re-presented. The personal subjective memory becomes objectified and made plural hence available to others for their re-imagining and re-membering.