A scrapbook performance. Taking the idea of creating a live, performative scrapbook, I share the work of three seemingly disparate artists, Paul Strand, Yoko Ono and Eddie Squires to ask ‘what do we need to navigate our universe today’? The audience is led through the performance via pictures & text pinned up on criss crossing threads across the stage. The live scrapbook includes photographs taken by Paul Strand in 1956 of the community of South Uist on the edge of the Atlantic, Eddie Squires images of the 1969 Lunar Landing wallpaper design, and Yoko Ono’s sky texts following her harrowing experience as a child in Japan after WWII. The performance is divided up into 8 tips to help us navigate our universe today which loop like orbiting planets. Celestial Navigation, Where Am I? is a celebration of human resilience against the odds and a beacon to keep hope and imagination alive.

The sound score combines Electronic bagpipes and Gaelic folksongs with the drive & atmosphere of music by Yoko Ono.

DURATION: 50 minutes, text, movement, video and music

Written and performed by Sarah MK Archdeacon. Video backdrop & set, Jon C Archdeacon. Outside eye, Tom Marshman.

‘But the moon used to be much closer, didn’t it?
So close you could just climb us a ladder and step on….’
Celestial Navigation, Where Am I?