Week 6

Action Lab #1


Performed - Pushing Form Further
And Lizard Boy




The question we had to consider was - how can you collide this with another form?  We were to think about how content dictates form.


My text for the performance went as follows:

Twinkle, twinkle little star sung a cappella and syncopated
Film starts, breath


I spoke, about, talked about, losing the power of speech recently.  It was weird it was something I had forgotten about.
How can you forget such a thing?

Then I remember how many things I forget.  And have forgotten.  


Breath, one long sigh


When the image of my back in the mezzanine of FADS comes on to the scene, recite skinless poem:


When I am skinless
When my skin is so thin 
    Thinner than membrane
        under eggshell
    Thinner than clingfilm
        glad warp
        cellophane
    Thinner than the skin between
        the layers of an onion
    Then I am fragile
        frail
        feeble
    Then I have no voice

When poem finishes, 3 slow breaths and drill sound.  Drill sound goes on for longer than is comfortable.
Then final rendition of Twinkle, twinkle little star
…………
Exploring the idea of “how it feels to give voice to voicelessness”, I feel am still tiptoeing around rather than 'digging deep'.

I am not sure I am ready or willing to talk about Lizard Boy yet.