Reflections on Strangers on a Train: Camilla Brueton What did I find attractive about this project? Strangers on a Train - a chance meeting, an exchange. A fleeting premise for creating new work and making tentative connections. The idea of creating a piece of work for another to adapt, subvert - before being handed back to you - no room for preciousness. Also the use of a train journey as a means of distribution - referencing the mail train, the milk train (do these things still exist?). Unanticipated - the actual journey and the exchanges became an important performative part of the project - dancers seeing us off from Kings Cross - pulling into the first station - the mad dash down the platform to exchange works with awaiting artists, and back on the train before you know it as it pulls away from the station and on to the next one. Work collected - enough time to have a sneaky peek before exchanging with the next artist at the next station - acting as a courier - passive but inquisitive - wondering what work awaits me in Newcastle. It's an adrenaline rush already and then there's a mix up with the artist who's connecting train is delayed and due to arrive in York after we depart. Work for her is left with another artist on the platform for her to collect. We call her back - only to discover she had borrowed the phone of a stranger on her previous train to call us. We're on a train travelling to Newcastle - the work for her is now in York station in the care of another artist - the lost artist is due to arrive - there's no means of contacting her directly or knowing which train she's on, except... a tannoy announcement! The artist with the work in York asks the station manager to do this. We sit and wait on the train - we get a call from both artists in the station pub - having a drink, having exchanged work. Chance meetings - exchanges of many sorts, strangers on many trains. Work reworked: It was quite a challenge but enjoyable, reworking another very different artist's work. The work I received back, and the dialogue entered into has been interesting - their reaction to what I had done both complimented and challenged what I had done. [Camilla's work was altered by Bram Arnold, and Camilla altered Phil Marsden's piece.]