Thanks Alan! Well I do tend to get lost on top of being lost etc.. ha ha and lose the compass.
I was interested in the visceral and obsessive nature of my drawing work from 90 through to around 96, when I was chalking the beetle motifs on pavements with Heath and then Ray Baskerville a butoh performer, for a while, then it led to the little super 8 film.. after moving onto paper with charcoal. After a while I felt a bit better. mental health seemed a factor - albeit disguised as “art” ha ha each motif was given a name for a made-up mental disorder, a bit like the doctors do every year. They have a junket and make new ones up - to sell the pharma products I think. Names were like Sad Hat Dentia and Cornea Jettison Syndrome. So each drawing was a new in-that-moment-of-being diagram or sigil or signpost, with a new name, for the catalogue of human disorders. It was real, but was presented as a parody or satire. I might get back to that animation thing again I guess… after your show of interest Alan! Do we have some parrallels in our work do you think? Marc thought so for Prometheus. Good on you Marc! Cheers, Simon On 8 Sep 2020, at 19:22, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <[email protected]> wrote: > Really like all of this greatly! I'm surprised - are you still working in > this direction? They're wonderful, they transcend their medium! > > Thank you! - Alan > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour > <[email protected]> wrote: > Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what > I’ve seen and those > dancers I have worked with. > > Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago. We > attended. He moved at many different speeds. > > Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and > attending workshops in London and Brighton > and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz. > > The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and powerful > sense, while becoming aware of how > I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space! In a > small way I began to feel myself in > the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice. > > I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai expressionist > movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly. > > Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA > > Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE > > The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film. > They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative, > filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed. > The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice > recordings, written to accompany the completed > visual material of that film. > > Thanks Alan for the interest! > > Simon > > > > > > > On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have seen. >> have you done more work like this? Best, Alan >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY >> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015. >> >> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction. >> Featuring >> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume. >> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts. >> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing. >> >> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex. >> >> From a single long improvisation. >> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my spyphone >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> -- >> ===================================================== >> directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 718-813-3285 >> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com >> ===================================================== >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > -- > ===================================================== > directory http://www.alansondheim.org tel 718-813-3285 > email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com > ===================================================== > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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