29 May 2024, Vault Artist Studios, Belfast

The first two of the three experiments with Maeve were a continuation of those we did on 6 May, this time in a studio and without the domestic settings of my house.

These reflection were written by Maeve as soon as I dropped her back home, around an hour after filming.

Maeve is very engaged and enthusiastic to collaborate together again. We both feel very at ease to work and collaborate on some creative experiments. I would like our collaboration to be much more intimate during filming, not as two separate art forms, but as a single ‘entangled’ ‘enkinaesthetic’ practice.

I know that my perspective based on my own creative experiences, values and aspirations are the primary tools to make sense of my findings. The research is by nature subjective, I think it has to be, because peak and flow experiences are experiential and subjective. I think this is the right approach to fully engage and understand the phenomena and present the findings.

I asked dance artists Helen and Maeve who performed in Becoming, to watch the film and let me know how they felt.

In May and June 2023, I held 5 controlled screenings of Becoming in Belfast to 54 viewers. The responses were extraordinary!

I wanted the evaluation experience for viewers to reflect the experience of the film, rather than be very reductionist and clinical.