Taking applause at the end of the second performance

Reflecting the cross-media and cross-cultural nature of the installation, Toutes Directions, John Hudson and Chrys Salt devised a show addressing the themes of the exhibition.
Poems included in the installation were translated and read in English and French while special performance pieces were created that readily crossed the language divide.

a stitch in time by John Hudson

a stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
a stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch

just doing time
killing time
doing time
killing time

just
just
just
just a second
just a mo
just killing time

just now
just then
just when
midnight
midday
midlife

killing time
just killing time
time
time
time
stands still 

[pause]

a stitch
time
stitch
time
stitch
time
time
line
time
line
time
line

stops for
hops for
runs out
jumps for
jumps to
jumps a beat 

[pause]

a stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
stitch
never
ever
never
ever
never
time enough

always
no way
always
long days
midnight
midday
now
now
now
now
now
now

doing time
just doing time
killing time
just killing time 

up always never-ever time
up always never-ever time

enough…
enough… 

up always never-ever time enough
up always never-ever time enough

doing time
just killing time 

up always never-ever time enough now
up always never-ever time enough now

killing time
just doing time

up always never-ever time enough now just a moment
up always never-ever time enough now just a moment

doing time
killing time
doing time
just killing time

time's up
time out
time's up
time out
time's up
time out

[pause]

a stitch…
in time…
saves…
none.

Maintenant by Chrys Salt

tick,tock, tick, tock

adds another
this this this this this
adds on
and waits for none
here
here
here
here
                          
never
after
always
after

in it briefer
sooner
faster
here
here
here
here

tock tock tock tock
time and again
time and again
again, again,
time and again
is present tense
past
past
again, again

tick, tock, tick, tock

future past
always past

NOW AGAIN

make it
kill it
pass it
lose it
take it
do it
slow it
STOP IT

gone
done
done
now now now
GONE

do it
do it
and it's done
done done
get it
done
done
gone
gone
done
do it
do it
get it
done

now now
here
now
not now YES NOW
not now YES NOW

fast as we think it

not ever
never
ever
not ever
FOR EVER
NEVER EVER
ever ever
UP

photographs of performances and rehearsals courtesy Anne Darling