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Some kind of epiphany

28/4/2021

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Precise
Imprecise 
Together
How they be

The efficient 
The clumsy 

Within the same unit

Ants are one body
A single entity 
Big as one hundred elephants 

Each ant follows a separate path
All is unpredictable 
After millennia
Less so

This massive body

Each part moving of its own
One will perish 
Thousands will continue 

Even flourish
Bloom
Many of these over rough terrain 

Crawl
Walk
Stumble 

A machine
Is the elephant
Of ants

Each part to another 
Mesh

A bowl of porridge 
Is the elephant 
Of ants

Each ingredient becomes 
Breakfast

Loose identity 
Losing self

But remaining
Salt
Oats
Plum?

A machine

A meal

Myself
An elephant
More like porridge than a car

Unless crashed into the ocean 
and rusting 
into a soup
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Screenshot from the film Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, directed by David Cronenberg
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F478152

20/4/2021

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Picture
The machine is a text

to feel

reading a machine

not forcing 
it is fluid

what are objects
archeology

The text is a machine 

This
domestic tool
manufactured on mass
touched over
and over again
in a factory 
of human hands and bodies 

then in service 
who?
what? 
where?

now resting here

this is time travel

reaching with my hands
feeling 

the past here 
now
informing
 
a gift
this present
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Pink Wings

16/4/2021

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Freedom
From (figuratively) sitting down
From divisive rhetoric
From controlling systems
From being ruled through division

Human
We
Together

Stand*
Discuss
Govern yourself
Mix like muddy water**

*Sly & The Family Stone, 1969
**Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu, Hackett 1993, Translation Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo
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That this is not magic but Work

13/4/2021

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In this poem (early 1950s) Bertolt Brecht expresses that the technical and functional happenings in the transformation of the staging are to be given to the view of the audience, if they lean back on their seats.
The choice belongs to the viewer in their dynamic action of viewing.

The peace dove by “brother” Pablo Picasso is to be painted onto the curtain (or in the case of the photo below embroidered). This action treats the work of this artist as an open-source visual devise, rather than as the original creation of a genius-art-god.

Art here is a collectively shared method, transparent in its performance and shared between people as members of the same uniting family.

Togetherness rather than exclusivity.
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body as experiential tool

6/4/2021

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Dance as exploration of mechanism experientially

To move is to feel and to be movement

By dancing am I doing a "useful" thing?
Why must the way I move be "functional"?

Surely to be focused on the "useful" and "functional" is limiting to any notions of (body) mechanics

The useful and the useless are together in the same room

I make a fire to keep warm
then

I dance
I sing

all night long
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