fouter and swick

9/11/21: house concert, hawick (chez grouchoshorts) vimeo
17/11/21: public space and a café somewhere, jedburgh (with grouchoshorts)
​20/11/21: back lane and courtyard performance; 'across the street' film projection (with grouchoshorts)

[fu:tər] (Scots): to bungle, botch, to work in a fiddling, careless or unskilled manner, to potter, to trifle        
[swɪk] (Scots): to cheat, swindle, to deceive, to get by fraud. 

Before I fell asleep I could tell that my hosts were talking at me and about me. Notable curator Meredith Spaniel-Harp and her lapdog Bent Lugg, infamous performance artist. Madeleine who recollected everything. Opinions and questions about artists, gatekeepers and audiences. 'But I'm not a stripper dear' and 'what are these things supposed to achieve?' 'So noisy yet so boring'. 'What is it that you actually claim to do?' 'No money in it'. 'Darling'. I slept so well that night.

​I dreamed of forest floors, viewpoints, ruins, abbeys and cathedrals, grounds, closes, garages, shipping containers, car parks, oak copses, living rooms, cafés, summer houses, sheds, garages, outhouses, canteens, bedrooms, riverbanks, closets, walk-in wardrobes, foyers, dining rooms, beach blankets, kitchens, doorsteps, garden tables, follies, empty bandstands, corridors, park benches, cars, buses, boats and trains, (tbc)
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subverting norms, eschewing cliques and clans, refusing hierarchies, ad populum