You sit in a theatre. They're dancing, moving, talking, singing. They arrange themselves; their movements have been preordained - composed, controlled, calculated. It all happens for a reason; someone has created this.
You walk down a street. People also arrange themselves, if only for a split second. A shuffling of feet, now they are unarranged. This happens every day, every second, on every street. Constant change, chaotic, uncontrollable. But be in the right place, the right seat in the house - something can emerge from nothing.
From this nothing, the ordinary walking, talking, running of people around different places can the extra-ordinary emerge. Georges Perec calls this the “infra-ordinary”, the focusing on the seemingly unnoticed things that pass us by, the banal, the quotidian, the background noise.
