BIRTHE JORGENSEN, MICHAEL BARR, CONOR COOKE & EMIL LILLO: Self-Directed Residency, 2013

B: Birthe Jorgensen and her collaborators M: Michael Barr, C: Conor Cooke and E: Emil Lillo

Inshriach Bothy, 26 Oct – 2 Nov 2013

 Here is a selection of photos, audio clips, words and notebook entries from our week of living and working off the grid at the edge of the Cairngorms.

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C: Dry sounds – sweeping and coughing

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E: sneeze

B:

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M:

C: gnik

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B: all of the voices – imagined and real

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M:

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E: kitchen

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M:

C: Mouth exporting air not sound

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B:

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 M:

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B: Ingrid

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M:

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B:  the dancer has his ear in his toe and today we’ve agreed to be silent

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M:

C:

E :  let me play you a song

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M:

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B: At first the people did not even know where to look

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M: I can’t hear you

C: – steel cap boots, jeans, duffle coat, improvised hats, no gloves

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M: Following a path is nice to do. It connects you to the people who have walked it before, and to those who will walk it after. It only exists because people walk it, and people only walk it because it exists. The path implies a sense of the gift.

C: …an ill advised mountain pilgrimage

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M: labour

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E: Fireworks on top of the mountain

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M:

C:

E: with boiled eggs in my pockets

B: where is ingrid?

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Dear Bothy people. Thank you for the fine work that you do! We felt so loved.

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