Chance, History, Art... - ACE093.2

Caption: "‘The world constantly invades the mind. Perceptions, emotions, ideas, pleasures and sufferings. Things of the inside and outside, together form in us a ‘familiar chaos’ which is nevertheless monstrously alien. Nothing is clear in the soul or in nature, and the mind glides by inertia along beaten tracks, imagining that it knows what most often it only recognises because it has already perceived or felt that thing without even penetrating its real nature.’ Paul Valéry, Introduction à la methode." Jackson Pollock painting. The Hayward Gallery, London. Rita Donagh talking about the significance of painting and galleries. Donagh continues talking. "…a magical space and time that one can enter in to." Excerpt from Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage dans la Lune/A Trip to the Moon (1902). Caption: "Five Conversations With Artists – Originally A Film About Surrealism." Stage performance McCracken is Flying South. Caption: "Anne Bean, born 1950 – Every day I would probably describe myself differently. John McKeon, born 1937 – Poet and musician." Bean says she’s interested in "randomity and keeping thing moving". Caption over: "Chance". Likes the idea of changing performances rather than repeating something just because it happened to work once. McKeon joins discussion. Change may produce something worse rather than better and may not be in the best interests of the audience