Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn (from Erik Ehn))

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [picking up from yesterday... Forcing a chaos to force a telos-precipitate -] This power survives as long as light remains in anticipation, and the public is controlled by anticipation. This is advertising as an end in itself ? all

[-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'd like to introduce Erik Ehn, whose plays are often concerned with issues of genocide and torture (he travels regularly to Rwanda and other troubled locations), and is head of theater at Brown University. I've asked him and the

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--[ee = a playwright in r.i.; director: writing for performance, brown u.] St. Hesychios talks about a pathway of contemplation that moves from torch, to moon, to sun. [I get this from Martin Laird’s nice, small book: A Sunlit Absence.] We

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- (for some reason, I can't quote directly here) The technocrats of light, I keep thinking of scorched, of scorching, of the annihilation