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Graeme Miller - introduction

"Country Dance"

Interview

Essay

Notebook pages

 This is an interactive site under construction which gives access to the artist, Graeme Miller’s notebook pages made during the 6 month process of realising a new work for the stage - Country Dance. A selection of some 20 pages will chart the evolution of the work from the earliest concepts, through devising, to the final organisation of the material. An in depth interview with fellow associate, Richard Povall, underscores the reproduced pages and can be accessed, either as text , or as streamed audio. Graeme Miller is an artist who makes extensive use of the notebook as part of the generative process . Consequently, the site is to be constructed with this "tradesman’s entrance" uppermost reaching into the creative process and its chronology from behind the scenes and finally giving glimpses of the final production. These revelations of the work will be as video clips, sound and still image.

The site aims to give unusual access to a preparatory process which was made with no regard for any subsequent analysis. The notes and images are triggers and keys to a number of insights and ideas about the work and about making work in general. They can be seen in time as a chronological sequence, but can also be linked and cross referred. The writings, doodles, charts and images themselves also raise questions about their own function in the progression of ideas within the making of a work. Are they an ‘artificial memory"? Do they make an ideographic language? How does the artist access this material?

While the edited interview material does cover a wide range of ideas, the site will allow for third party annotation from an external point of view - linking emergent themes to a wider academic background. This additional layer can appear in a separate box and can point to further suggested sources/other sites etc.

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for a complete overview of Graeme's work see his page at artsadmin

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