“There is no origin nor terminus to our feelings” – Gregg Bordowitz

Tender Interval is a series of monthly solo performances from Paul Abbott that will mobilise paraphrased pasts and imaginary futures to intensively explore the present for a way out.

The series will be composed of recurring ingredients (in particular): drums, technology, bodies, words and the building in which they are located. For each performance the composition of these elements will take form through a specific figure of existing materials taken from a range of sources.

The first event of the series, FRX1 (3) will learn from: poet Rob Halpern’s text Music For Porn, artist Yvonne Rainer’s choreography Trio A and musician Milford Graves’ concept of ‘emotional subdivisions’.

Based at Cafe OTO’s Project Space the performances form part of an ongoing investigation into questions of politics and aesthetics through rhythms, sounds and words.