Again I did my yearly pilgrammage to BAM for the New Wave Festival. This time seeing Pina Bausch’s Vollmond. I’ve been thinking about how to write about it since we took the train back. It was a beautiful performance, but that’s expected. What else was it? I keep asking myself this. I tried to talk to …
“The purpose is not to describe or represent bodies; bodies already have proper qualities, actions and passions, souls, in short forms, which are themselves bodies. Representations are bodies too.” A Thousand Plateaus, Chapter 3 The dance is superficial and exterior, a surface and a space. It offers itself already whole and completed. We are not …
Knew deer. drove home late one night and accidentally. And it’s soft eyes back touch the ears and pull it into bed. Flinching. times the effort of the neck woke. , not to remember Soft its broken body was. & hooves. Notes: Stark one reason for the deer and, above all, how it died. “We …
The difference between what is love for you and what do you think love is? She asks you to image the ideal outside of yourself. As opposed to work the idea inside yourself. How is it that Nietzsche positions the subject? We must think of ourselves as a field of exchanges that is constantly rubbing …
Repetition is a synthesis of time… in thinking about repitition you think about time, Bergson, contraction… If repetition is a synthesis of time, one has to ask what is the time of repetition? How do you synthesize memory and time? The passage of synthesis you arrive at the living present (The lived or living present)… How is it that the past sythesis …
Verbs-subject relationships expose a strategy of movement similar to the flows of dance. The dancer’s bodies are physical subjects, the material agency that dances. However, these bodies become abstracted. Actions, movements, and flux take over the body. While dancing, the person becomes an abstraction of movement: becoming-dance. This is not to say that the dancer’s …
Remember how excited we were after Ricardo (Dominguez) gave that talk in McKenzie’s class last summer. He said the new power was semantic, the way we control information. As writers, we got a real rise out of that, like maybe we weren’t wasting our time pouring over dictionaries and sending poems to grocery clerks. Writing …
The field that Pina Bausch defines / how is it that you can act today… the shift from acting to performance… that is parallel to the one that Pina Bausch rehearses… It was important that it didn’t shift towards theater but instead towards performance… Herbert Blau devises the presentation of the body on stage… In order …
Inertia: Throwing a spear… Exploring with a flashlight… how paths get made (repeating paths). People do that same thing… the way we traverse an unknown space starts to mark that space… To me that’s not necessarily colonial… Making a path, making ground… the unknown ground is there but people are making ground for themselves… How …
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics Why are there things that are, rather than nothing? Heidegger tries to capture the strangeness of being. This persistence of the question and why. In a way the muffled telephone rings that call in the question of being… The question looms in moments of great despair, when things tend to …
Not like bleeding, the dress, stinging red sun falling, or a cardinal clicking at the leaves just before the flying silent. No, the dress wasn’t ready to wipe itself from the thin spine, breasts, thighs. Clinging to the ribs, lifting off, clinging to itself and stopping. Something more that simply undressing itself. The record pin, …
Hans-Georg Gadamer – Exaggeration of metaphor – The work of art has something to say… And we should let it say it. – p 186: Art is an object or event (on-going event), not an expression of an artist. – Looking at a work of art or a performance is a moment of lookingitself. Looking …