This video essay (39 min 50 sec), published in GPS (Global performance Studies) 3:2 exists in two form Revisiting the Rock - with text and Revisiting the Rock - without text. Using a video recording of a revisit on 11 August 2018 to the site where the video work Year of the Rat - Mermaid was performed during the year 2008 as a base I combine variations of the work and ideas associated with it later.