200605-0840 How we might have met

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<div style="text-align: center"> How We Might Have Met (and might still yet) <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/illustrations/crowd+%2B+figures+4.jpg" width="70%"> [[INFO]] <<if hasVisited("1")>>1<</if>><<if not hasVisited("1")>>[[1]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("2")>>2<</if>><<if not hasVisited("2")>>[[2]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("3")>>3<</if>><<if not hasVisited("3")>>[[3]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("4")>>4<</if>><<if not hasVisited("4")>>[[4]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("5")>>5<</if>><<if not hasVisited("5")>>[[5]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("6")>>6<</if>><<if not hasVisited("6")>>[[6]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("7")>>7<</if>><<if not hasVisited("7")>>[[7]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("8")>>8<</if>><<if not hasVisited("8")>>[[8]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("9")>>9<</if>><<if not hasVisited("9")>>[[9]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("10")>>10<</if>><<if not hasVisited("10")>>[[10]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("11")>>11<</if>><<if not hasVisited("11")>>[[11]]<</if>> <<if hasVisited("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11")>><<timed 1s t8n>>[[12]]<</timed>><</if>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> How we might have met: <<timed 1s t8n>>on your way home from the shops one Saturday afternoon, after the third time you passed<</timed>> <<timed 5s t8n>>after you saw the police asking me to explain myself to them<</timed>> <<timed 9s t8n>>and when my pose and demeanour<</timed>> <<timed 11s t8n>>(not approaching but waiting, and ready to meet your eye if you wanted) <</timed>> <<timed 15s t8n>>got the better of your curiosity<</timed>> <<timed 17s t8n>>and you came over to ask me what I was doing here, on your high street, in your town. <</timed>> <<timed 22s t8n>>Of course we might not have met at all if (like others) you assumed I was a charity employee signing people up for donations, or hired by the supermarket to carry shopping.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "ONE" play>><</button>></span> <</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/3-Rhiannon-Armsrtong.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met when you gave up on the idea that I was in sales at Revlon flogging samples from my tool belt, and accepted my offer to cool you down with my fan.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "THREE" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/5-credit-Rob-Irish.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met noticing each other’s moistened eyes, as we sang along to George Harrison’s ‘Here Comes the Sun’.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "FIVE" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/2-image-3-Can-I-Help-You_-at-Heads-Up-Hull-autumn-2016-photo-courtesy-of-Jerome-Whittingham-%40photomoments.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met when I unexpectedly found my catchphrase, in answer to your reasonable questions regarding the suspiciousness of my motives: “the catch is, it’s art”.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "TWO" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/4-credit-Alexander-Parsonage.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met as you let me take your trolley from you, wandered in silence for a mile or so and wordlessly took it back before turning down a side road.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "FOUR" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/6-Screenshot-2020-05-28-16.04.40.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met when you permitted yourself a hand massage and I laced my fingers through yours, working with through and around the hold that arthritis has there.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "SIX" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/7-Screenshot-2020-05-28-16.03.55.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met as I shined your shoes with a wetwipe, "daddy" looked on, and you patted me on the head revelling in the novelty of someone looking up at you for once.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "SEVEN" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/8-credit-Rob-Irish.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met across the twinkle in both our eyes, when you asked me to tie your shoelace for you and I told you I’d show you how.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "EIGHT" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/1-credit-Jerome-Whittingham.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met right after I shooed away the photographer. Or maybe the moment we met was really a bit later, discussing the option of the hostel nearby and how you weren’t ready to cut down on your drinking yet.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "TEN" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/9-IMG_8827.jpg" width="100%"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met in private amidst a rowdy crowd of all your friends as I pointed to the helpline number for “sexaholics anonymous” in a way that only you would see.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "NINE" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <<timed 2s t8n>>We might have met during a long conversation in which you were always about to leave, eventually asking me to help you explain your violence to your kids.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "ELEVEN" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> In 2006 I stood on the streets of Camberwell and offered people free help of any kind as part of a festival called Bonkersfest: this was the first performance of ‘Can I Help You?’. This year I was due to bring a team of artists together to develop the work and perform it in Hastings and across Kent and Sussex as part of a co-commission between Home Live Art and Applause Rural Touring. Meeting strangers is a big part of what drives my work. I’ve been remembering the people I have met in the past doing 'Can I Help You?', and thinking about those I won’t meet on the streets this year. This is my account of how we might have met, in the hope that we might still yet. <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "INFO" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->The Crowd]]<</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <<timed 0.5s t8n>><img src="https://twinery.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Knotty+Applause+piece/images/rectangles/11-c-image-5-by-Rhiannon-Armstrong.jpg" width="100%"><</timed>> <<timed 4s t8n>>'How we might have met (and might still yet)' is by [[Rhiannon Armstrong->http://www.rhiannonarmstrong.net/projects/help/]]<</timed>> <<timed 7s t8n>>commissioned by Applause Rural Touring and Home Live Art.<</timed>> <<timed 10s t8n>>Illustrations by Tom Armstrong,<</timed>> <<timed 13s t8n>>programming support from Kieran Lucas.<</timed>> <<timed 16s t8n>>Thank you.<</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "CREDITS" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> </div>

<div style="text-align: center"> <<timed 0.5s t8n>>We might have met over a long walk to your flat, carrying wood to build a kennel but no furniture for you inside,<</timed>> <<timed 6s t8n>>without really looking at one another as you told me about your life and kept asking if I needed to get back to somewhere else<</timed>> <<timed 11s t8n>>until we met again in a new way when you stopped at the traffic light and met my eyes, tears coming now at the thought of being heard.<</timed>> <<timed 19s t8n>>If we had met / do meet / will meet in this way, I would will keep the gift you gave me, use it every day and know that it is the one thing I would save if my home were on fire. <</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>><span class="listen"><<button "">><<audio "TWELVE" play>><</button>></span><</timed>> <<timed 3s t8n>>[[BACK->CREDITS]]<</timed>> </div>

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