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Dear Reader, this is a thesis - supposedly. It could also be a performance if you want. As an object it is detachable in that you can pick it up. Or download it. This thesis has edges. It has protrusions, indentations, connections and holes. Lots and lots of holes. That is because this is a thesis about and consisting of affordances. That is to say something that offers interaction. We’ll get into that in a bit. Suffice to say, my hope is that you feel free to read it or play with it in any way you see fit. Turn it into a paper airplane to see if it flies or set it on fire to warm your hands. Rearrange the pages if you want. This might affect the red thread that ties the pages all together, but that’s all the thread was there for. To tie things up and as something to hold onto. With that said, somewhere amongst all the following words, I’d like to think that there is
something at least nominally related to Circus. That is because this is supposed to be a thesis about Contemporary Circus Practices. Well….about my own contemporary circus practice in any case. It feels kind of empowering to call my circus practice contemporary though, I must say. Com –Latin. Meaning with or together, and Tempus-Latin. Meaning time. With the times then!Though in all honesty it is probably a very anachronistic, sin temporary circus practise at best. Hmmm…remind me to look into the affordances of time. With that said, and if you’ll allow, I’ll step aside here and let the pages and words do their thing…