Running is a meditative form. It brings the subconscious lens into focus. This unconscious economy of (e)motion can focus the mind to find resolve in the agony of reflection, mediate obsessions, or find an ephemeral peace in a kind of vacancy of the immediate. Contemporary notions of mindfulness and mindlessness emphasise how we need weigh these fundamental aspects of the mind against one another. But is there value in the pursuit of compartmentalising these coalescing states, or is it an exercise in futility to view both mindfulness and mindlessness through anything other than the window of the present? What presence or transience of mind dictates to the body? Tension and release in the ligaments of our past behaviors and future selves constrict our ability to live absolutely in just one state of mind, surely?
Concept, choreography and performance by Orla Mc Carthy
Music by SISTIR
Camera by Sam van der Schot
Text by Luke Butt
