I, with hundreds of other people flocked to the pier in October to see an installation and performance by local arts group Radiator. We were promised a performance to challenge our perceptions and concepts of time. A challenge it most certainly was as, with a bag of sand clutched in my hand, I tried to work out exactly what it was I was taking part in. I think I went through the mists of time, I think I visited a room that was made up of fragments from different eras … I think there was also an elephant on a settee! I saw space and planets and extracts about the theories of time from philosophers and scientists.
I think I wrote a message on a piece of paper and planted it with a magic bean in a spectacular potting shed (which incidentally was the home of a man with the most extraordinary eyebrows I have ever seen).
And then there was the fact that there were people with their heads stuck firmly inside television screens wandering around the place. This is one thing I am sure of: television truly is a waste of time, but it is also a most powerful tool because it plays with time - it can take up time, return time or take us into future time.
There was only one thing my confused brain knew clearly at the end of this perform-ance; yes 'Timebends', but also mind bends!
T Herbert
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