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Nina Isabelle
THE ARCHITECTURE OF A STREAM

first performed on March 30, 2019
Three Phase Center for Collaborative Art Research and Building, Stone Ridge, NY
performed once in 2019

VALERIE SHARP

Stone Ridge, NY
valerieksharp@gmail.com
valerieksharp.com

THE ARCHITECTURE OF A STREAM
VALERIE SHARP

“The Architecture of a Stream” was my project for a month-long residency at Three Phase Center. I worked with durational stream-of-consciousness writing both as a daily practice and as a performative action. In my writing practice, I strived to be as free and authentic as possible, writing the thoughts that would flow through me in the moment. Throughout the process, I experimented with different “containers” in which to give form to the formless. Examples of such containers would be time, space, intention, and sculptural forms. The performative action itself was an act of public stream-of-consciousness writing, contained and controlled by the sound of a metronome and the length of the paper across the physical space. The final performance took place surrounded by installation pieces I created using the written material on paper throughout the month of residency.