On a Virgin train to Edinburgh a few days ago, during a refreshing hour of motionlessness (points failure) outside York, I fell to chatting with the holidaying American family sharing the table.
There is also in the poems a kind of motionlessness that is indistinguishable from terrific speed, in the same way Arvo Pärt's music can sound fast and slow at the same time.
John Torres's lighting makes Mr. Bokaer's motionlessness memorable.
Yet how different is "4'33" " with motionlessness in a group!
Each time of day had its perfect location for motionlessness.
The experience of Cunningham motionlessness, it should be said, is nothing like that of Cage's silence.
I thought of the discipline required for such motionlessness on a steamy late afternoon.
In the original, one man stands still while others come and go, moving slowly; even with a young man out of context, the motionlessness of its three positions is disturbingly bleak, suggesting psychological numbness and withdrawal.
But this near motionlessness is occasionally broken by sudden acts suggesting that emotions still survive in these specters, passions that can haunt the present.
Their motionlessness made them perfect subjects for photography and Garry Gale, for one, was delighted.
Like that display, Work No 850 encourages the viewer to focus on the human form - but this time the body, far from locked in marble motionlessness, is galloping hell for leather.
