Peer Review of Still/Desire
By Paul Hurley

National Review of Live Art, 2009.

Still/Desire was a piece of stillness and purity. As audience entered the performance space there was silence, reverence, anticipation for something that was sensed but not known. What happened in the space was quite other. It was focused visually, aurally, energetically, on the “becoming” of a body connected in space and time. The strong, awesome movements of a warrior gave birth to restrained, distilled, gentle actions of repetition.

Within the stillness of the audience there were quivers, stretches, driftings off and comings back. In the bare subterranean of The Arches, with the rumble of trains overhead, there took place a similarly bare and underworldy occurrence, which people both witnessed and voyaged with. Necessarily, such work is beyond words, beyond image; but still, perhaps all the more so, it exists with certitude and longevity. Still (/) Desire endures.

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