Defin. To carry out a task badly, spoiled by mistakes.
“I’ve made a botch of things” or “I’ve botched the job”

We worked with the movemental and sonic associations that come with our habitual behaviors within the spaces of the site. We were periodically interrupted by two handymen.  They would come in, sigh, tell you off for something, grunt, patch things up, leave and then come back to do the same thing all day everyday.  Their actions told a tale of frustration wavering between hopelessness and obsessive, relentless activity. The small touch ups were not enough for the real substantial work that needed to be done.  Eventually all the minimal adjusting, tweaking and fixing needed a much bigger solution. This functioned as a metaphor for the broader themes we were working with, and through a form of catharsis, we could use the site to represent both a physical and psychological landscape of our space. 

The movement score was inspired by these gestural actions: measuring, assessing, re-assessing, sawing, steadying, pushing, pulling, counting, lifting, screwing, digging, leaning, scrubbing and hammering.

Every now and again a dazed expression would take over, exhausted while contemplating the lines and shapes of the space in pauses of overwhelm. 

Virginia’s music was punctuated by live percussive banging actions, and vocalisations of sighs, grunts, growls and strings of mumbled murmurs.