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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  Screenshot from the film Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, directed by David Cronenberg
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 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 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   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.  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 |
February 2023
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