DIALOGUES

Drawing in Thin Air

Graeme Miller and Adrian Heathfield

These letters were exchanged between Adrian Heathfield and the artist Graeme Miller. Miller is a British theatre maker, composer and site artist. Emerging from the bold and influential stage work of Impact Theatre Co-operative in the 1980s, a group he co-founded, his work now embraces a wide range of media. With the idea of being “a composer of many things that may include music” he has made theatre, dance, installations and interventions, which often share a sense that they are structures made from fragments of actuality, composed into resonant landscapes. If there is an underlying narrative to all of his work, it concerns the struggle to make sense of the world and the building of new half-sacred, half-profane worlds from the fragments of the real one. Miller and Heathfield’s letters move around questions of drawing and writing the event of performance, being in transit and rapture, and the contemplation of the sublime.

Drawing in Thin Air was performed at Middlesex University in June 2002 and was subsequently published in English and Croatian in Frakcija, Vol. 24/25, Autumn. ISSN 1331-0100.