Lee, ji Eon (Republic of Korea)
& Neil Berecry-Brown (Australia)

Mobius.

Terminus Project, New Zealand, September – October 2005.

Mobius was a multifaceted and hybrid-form collaborative process.
It consisted of improvised site-specific events at Haulashore Island, Nelson, and on the waterfront in Dunedin, an installation in the Hocken Library at Otago University, and talks and presentations at the university and at the studio of one of the artists, Iain Cheesman.

The talks, ‘art for nothing’, canvassed ideas about art, philosophy and contemporary practice, as well as engaging aspects of Mobius as spoken language and conversation. They were an integral part of the process of making and witnessing.

The loosely choreographed Mobius ‘termina’ events blurred the boundaries between dance, installation, work-in-progress; and performance that oscillated between the theatrical and the everyday; the somatic, the aesthetic, the academic, the dialogical and the mundane.

The artists adopted a musical structure to orchestrate the component parts – eg elements were identified in terms of major and minor themes, motifs, cadenzas, improvisation, movements, tempo etc. as a language to facilitate cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary communication.

Mobius took shape as the dynamics of Terminus unfolded.
Factors included local and colonial history, physical geography, duration, words, wind and weather; and the artists and others associated with Terminus whose ideas, energy and generous enthusiasm created the matrix within which the process was nourished and developed.

Neil and Ji Eon.