oh how Freudian af ew, Alan.....
....reaching for Ana to process reflect this perticular typoid you've created,
Brother....for
Allah the Seestahs... Ahm supposin
cuz Ah have NO idea wha she's gonna say...
13:45 9/19/06 586 bytes
overderm-
ination ~
raitorni-malaria
raitorni-wallaroos
raitorni-moonwa
raitorni-mutatio
Right Orn!
Moon wa Tsuki... ga Fuffwa na kankei ga arimasenka?
and I'm aboat to open Lanny's post to this thred, that honestly I was aware of
a cupple hours ago,
but couldn't attend to.... so waited til... welll.... 13:45 to assisass.com
this post
Quite a mutatio, Alan.
By and large I tend to agree with you. Your points all provoke
interest/reflection... cuz I*I
[oops that's *I*]... have performed (danced...?) naked... a nuber of times.
Specifically in Japan
I recall one performance at a Temple in Kyoto.. that I met a Japanese dancer
who was to perform
next night in a different performance series, elsewhere (back in Tokyo,
actually), to which I was
also contributory at a later date... but anyway... HE performed naked, himself,
next evening.. adn
the powers that be SO scolded his nude intervention.. adn reminded everyone
that nakedness was
unacceptable. NOT well accepted.. quite disgruntled all. Save the admiration he
a dn I felt for
each other's willingness to RISK.. WHICH we all know is where "the creative"
lives! ie. In the
risk.
Those guys have a strange take on the "money shot" too don't they... Sometimes
I'm shocked at HOW
much sperm a dot matrix scramble can project.
The occassion of that particular performance I gave as part of a week long
workshop was realized
from the same morning when i woke dreaming just what it was I would DO that
evening. I wont go
into it here... but in preparation, two hours before my performance that
evening I went to a local
Sento (Pulic Bath) and not only bathed... but shaved... EVERY hair from my
body. I was aware of
the gaze of the other men around me... curious looks, yes, while I shaved...
but I felt a certain
level of mutual respect from the other men in the bath house.
How the actual and the theatrical layover here i find interesting.
Over-dermination and the
Emperor's chaste titty.
D^
--- Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some notes on sexuality in performance, video, etc. (This is in part a
> follow-up to a recent discussion elsewhere, and is hopelessly naive, 'off
> the cuff,' but perhaps of interest anyway.)
>
> First, it seems that sexual representation is overdetermined; the result
> is it tends to dominate everything else. If I have a sexual work in among
> a number of non-sexual ones, it's the sexual work that's remembered and
> that actually forms the tenor of subsequent discussion. Our culture is too
> confused and contradictory in relation to sexuality - it never resolves -
> and sexual work can open a can of worms.
>
> Second, there's a huge responsibility involved, ethically and psychologi-
> ically, in terms of sexual or even nude representation; if I'm using my
> own body, I can take that, but if I work with someone else, he or she
> might not realize the implications. So one has to be careful.
>
> Third, using one's own body creates an intense and unresolved disturbance
> for an audience, when confronted, not only with nudity, but possibly with
> the nudity of someone present (dressed) in the room - I'm talking about
> video and reality co-mingling. And this may be difficult to take. All of
> these situations result in an unresolvable problematic, usually produc-
> tive of intense and on occasion negative emotions. After all, it's the
> audience member's own body, own responses (sexual and psychological) that
> is at stake.
>
> Fourth, most members of an audience will resist arousal - and while one
> can generate any kind of powerful emotions in an audience (and that's
> generally a good thing), arousal is taboo. Anger can be one result - just
> like anger against gays often has to do with one's own impulses in that
> direction.
>
> Fifth, we're living in a culture which hinges and intensifies explicit
> sexual presentation and censoring; nudity is never complete, is always
> dirty, and always desirable as a result. Television is full of this -
> which then has to be situated elsewhere and elsewise in a performance.
> I tend to favor pornography over eroticism (although I don't own any
> pornography and/or practice it) on the basis of honesty; one is confronted
> with a kind of truth that eroticism hides. And I think that eroticism
> spills out into and around capital - it's the 'way' the culture works,
> even though pornography probably generates more money. To some extent
> pornography is pornography because it is taboo - a kind of circular
> reasoning - after all what's being presented is usually fucking of one
> sort or another, an everyday act.
>
> Sixth, pornography is mixed with violence in an equation that I associate
> with Iraq mixed with Al Qaeda; there's no necessary relation. Television
> is far more disturbing in terms of the latter than the former, and while
> some pornography has very uncomfortable power relations embedded in it
> (for example the 'money shot' of coming on the face of someone, usually a
> woman), this isn't necessary to it. What does seem necessary is a sense of
> danger (there's also physiological and psychological evidence for this) or
> transgression - in this sense, in spite of its codifications, pornography
> is somewhat revolutionary. (Of course this is also taking the position
> that pornography may be ultimately liberating, which may well be both
> naive and retrograde.)
>
> Seventh, pornography and eroticism both touch on prostitution, etc.; the
> very illegality of these forms tends towards a kind of (what is perceived
> as) low-key criminality. And along with this, pornography now - at this
> point in time - tends to slide into child pornography - into child abuse -
> into a general category of 'pervert' - into the idea of sexual danger
> lurking everywhere for everyone - into increased repression - including
> things like Megan's law (which seems, to me, fundamentally wrong, a
> continuous life-long punishment after someone has served time) - I could
> go on and on about this, but in any case, this discourse of children tends
> to frame or contaminate or penetrate the discourse of pornography, and
> sexuality itself. One has to be more careful than ever - that what is
> adult stays adult for example (however 'adult' or 'mature' for that matter
> maybe defined).
>
> And eighth and final, even now there still seems to be a kind of libera-
> tion in arousal, sexual display, etc. Dance comes more out of the
> Dionysian than the Apollonian; it's connected with courtship, with inter-
> course, mating rituals, Bacchanalias, etc. And yet dance is now largely
> repressed - it's formalized (the cultivation of protocols, barriers,
> institutions, companies, etc.) and even though, for example ballet, has
> heavy sexual elements (supporting someone by the crotch etc.), these are
> pretty much ignored or bypassed (all the more reason because they domin-
> ate, are present) in discussion. It's this lack of discussion, lack of
> sexual discoruse vis-a-vis dance, that, in fact, propels dance, in
> particular ballet and so-called modern dance. Dancers themselves may be
> poorly prepared for thinking through these things. (I'm not saying that
> dancers should dance sexually here - only that this is an option which is
> generally taboo.) (Of course there are exceptions to everything.)
>
> This is somewhat off the top of my head, but it's an area I've had to
> consider far more than I've wanted to, given the nature of some of my
> work. From my own viewpoint, my pieces cover a wide field of content and
> interests, but sexual overdermination creates what might be thought of as
> a black hole of discourse, everything far too often falling into that
> particular direction.
>
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