Response to Johannes' Gravel Maraboutage - Johannes, I think this is absolutely brilliant; it relates for me to isolation, meditation, compassion, butoh, , mime, but above all to the interiority of the world and the resistances and affordances that engenders. everyone and no one is there, there are duets with the camera/vision/eye, with disappearance, with evenings and twilights, with the Pilgrim's staff (a friend has walked the pilgrims' route twice in Spain, Compostela) and then there's exhaustion and a kind of weight and flight for me, the electrical energy of the video itself, the interiority of the coal...
But also a slowness, deliberateness, as if a path in an impossible primordial world were being constructed, however tentatively. (Caveat - my music is used somewhat in the piece, but caveat again - this isn't affecting my reading.) I keep thinking on the other hand of Han Shan, Cold Mountain, and Red Pines' translation and photographs of the cave, and thinking of pilgrims' staff and shakuhachi/qin musics in wildernesses. I found the work healing, and that's saying a lot, especially from downtown Providence, Rhode Island, where we feel hemmed in on all sides from noise, illness, bad politics. Best, Alan - dear net list: sharing my new performance work with you, & I welcome your feedback.... ‘Gravel Maraboutage' dance work, 13:11 min 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlfTUpFYP48&feature=youtu.be thank you for watching Johannes Birringer DAP-Lab, London
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