'Response' at Landguard Fort - Palimpsest (Scar)

I am developing a new performance work for 'Response', an event taking place in October at Landguard Fort, an English Heritage site on Felixstowe Harbour in Suffolk. Responding to the site, a stronghold, the work will approach themes of power, dominance and submission - referencing the king - the red cape of Caesar and domestic work, service and repair. Simultaneously healing and inflicting - smoothing over and opening an old wound.

I am interested in using the corridor spaces of the fort - the veins and arteries of the building. I am working with the title Palimpsest (Scar). The work will explore the idea of writing and re-writing, covering and revealing, the fort itself has undergone a number of architectural additions over the years, being re-written in stone. I have been thinking about the history of the place, a military history, battles fought by men, written in words on pages, now re-enacted - what is really told? What is lost? 

Unfolding, slowly, moving backwards and forwards in time, a welcoming and a warning, soft underfoot - a red carpet - a red river.