Full Moon
in Virgo
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+ Next Tuesday morning’s Movement Research class will be celebrating the Vernal Equinox 9-9:45AM (let me know if you want to be the guest <3) Info & Details
+ Sessions Availability Next Week: Sun 16th, Tues 18th, Wed 19th, & Fri 21st
+ Coming into new life has me contemplating what the soil turns over to make new. Just read Ending Life at the End of the Earth: Inside the Green Care Death Industry by Ludwig Hurtado. Need a little rot and decay to get the bloom <3
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The Breakthrough (23 min, standing) recording below—scroll allllll the way down—is an activation practice of coming in and out of the ground as a way to find the opening, the bloom, the full body breakthrough. The four of cups and the I Ching’s 20 Contemplation are there backing this practice up, gentle encouragement through this full moon, eclipse season, and the vernal equinox. It’s a very ‘here we go’ time.
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Never Casual
What I’ve read, am reading, am watching, have watched, and am reflecting on recently that’s impacting this whole thought thread that may or may not be directly discussed. It’s long, but I can be very dung beetle about my reading and my thinking; it just accumulates and I’m mushing it all together into a giant brown ball of a season of thinking. My seasonal thinking is guided less by weather and more by what art project I’m working on. What I’m trying to build leads me to what I do not know which inevitably leads me to the well of my unknowing which I fall into and then am born out the other side with a bit of language and some art. I’ll add things as they come up, one by one, but know that those references are being folded into here, the starting list, in case references appeal (almost all of it can be found online):
Hold it Against Me: difficulty and emotion in contemporary art by Jennifer Doyle
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
“Queer Use” by Sara Ahmed
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” by Ursula K. LeGuin
“Disco as Operating System, Part 1” by Tan Lin
“Too Communist, Too Freudian” by Hanna Zeavin for Parapraxis
“Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s Everywhere” by Ben Davis for ArtNet
“Anne Imhof’s ‘DOOM’ trades in Americana” by Jeanette Bisschops for Frieze
“The Garbs of DOOM: A conversation with artist Eliza Douglas, who designed the costumes for Anne Imhof’s ambitiously dark spin on ‘Romeo and Juliet’” by Ruby J. Thelot for Ssense
“Viscosities. A Conversation with Lucy Beech” by Filipa Ramos for FlashArt
Ken Klippenstein’s, Drew Zeiba’s, and Taylor Lorenz’s (whose book—Extremely Online—I semi-recently finished) substacks
“The Painted Protest” by Dean Kissick
“The Curse” by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie
“Girls Never Die” by Alex Quicho for University of Applied Arts Vienna on Youtube
“In My Language” by Mel Baggs on Youtube
“A Different Type of Church” by Ryan Cardoso for dis.art
random TikToks about NYC influencers being boring, not boring, you’re just saying they’re boring because you don’t curate your feed correctly, etc.
Tressie McMillan Cottom teaching me the term “tax payer citizenship” which I guess she gets from a book entitled Racial Taxation by Camille Walsh (haven’t read it but figured I’d share)
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The day following my performance last week, I drew out the floor plan to every section of this live dance I’m working on. It’s the part that I can see very clearly. And each floor plan leads to the feeling of the light to support the pathways drawn, drawing the floor plan upwards, into the room. Lighting the bodies, the clothes, the hair, the skin, the actions. I see it. I can hear a muffled soundscape gradually drawing closer, wanting to fill in the empty space. It’s very, very 3D.
Simultaneously, I think about the green screen, a video, a kind of recordable performance held more by language than by space (There’s not much space in reality, but also on purpose; e gets it and suggests all the items that aren’t people are flat. I agree immediately. Let’s confuse the lens.) And at the same time I’m thinking of an even flatter space, a website that is a kind of Museum, holding the past but also what is going to come. It’s a scroll as in you could do that action but really it’s an unfurling of a timeline that doesn’t matter if it condenses or cannot be seen all at once.
I don’t know why I have been contemplating these three projects as simultaneous iterations. As I get deeper into the plotting and the doing, something about the dimensions is relevant to hold the multitude of ideas that I’m attempting to build out. These iterations of projects may never look like they connect on the surface, but they are all blooming out the same pile of research and curiosity and so in order to do them they must stay woven together in my mind.
This morning I’m lying on my couch, talking through this dimensional question puzzle, but I’m distracted by the influx of boredom reflections over the past week. They seem related, but maybe I’m reaching. As I’m talking through what the live dance is trying to do, I’m starting to realize that one of the aspects I’m building out is my personal response to moving through the world experiencing assigned, expected, conditioned, and chosen roles. I lean into all of them, but you may catch only a glimpse of a facet, for I become a hologram and if you’re only looking at me from one angle, you’re going to get hit with whatever is wavering in the light. I know you wanted me to be the baby, but you approached from the wrong angle.