NINE CEMETERY REFLECTIONS
1. A few days dead, coming across the thrown aside corpse. Corpse is bloated, livid and pus is flowing.
⦁ compare this with your own body
⦁ our bodies are of the same nature
⦁ I am not exempt from that fate
REFLECTING WHILST NOT CLINIGNG TO ANYTHING IN THE WORLD
2. Come across this above corpse, being devoured by:
⦁ crows
⦁ hawks
⦁ vultures
⦁ dogs
⦁ jackals
⦁ various worms
3. Reduced to a skeleton with flesh and blood held to it with tendons
4. Reduced to a fleshless skeleton with wet blood on it and tendons
5. Reduced to a skeleton with no flesh nor blood, and tendons
6. Reduced to disconnected bones scattered in all directions
⦁ here a hand bone,
⦁ there a foot bone,
⦁ here a shin bone,
⦁ there a thigh bone,
⦁ here a hip bone,
⦁ there a back-bone,
⦁ here a rib-bone,
⦁ there a breast bone,
⦁ here an arm-bone,
⦁ there a shoulder bone,
⦁ here a neck bone,
⦁ there a jaw bone,
⦁ here a tooth,
⦁ there the skull…
7. Reduced to bones bleached white
8. Reduced to bones heaped up, more than a year old
9. Reduced to bones rotted and crumbled to dust.
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9 CEMETERY REFLECTIONS SCORE:
the thrown aside corpse.bloated, livid pus is flowing. , being devoured by:various worms skeleton with flesh and blood fleshless skeleton with wet blood a skeleton with no flesh nor blood disconnected bones scattered a hand bonefoot bone a shoulder bone bones bleached white bones heaped up bones rotted and crumbled to dust
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Notes on Dust Gets in Your Eyes:
⦁ To curb lust
⦁ detach from desire for permanence
1. distension
2. rupture
3. exidation of blood
4. putrifaction
5. discolopuration and dessication
6. consumption by animals and birds
7. dismemberment
8. bones
9. parched to dust
⦁ meditation could be internal, but often based around real things that were rotting and trips to the Charnel ground.
⦁ consistent exposure to dead bodies to remove trepidation around dead bodies
⦁ dead bodies have dissapeared from contemporary culture
⦁ decomposign bodies are needed to alieviate fear of death
⦁ what of the culture where the dead/rotting bodies are removed?
⦁ death denial: obsession with youth, detoxifying diets, anti-aging products: technoology and buildings creating divide between us and animals, alienating us from associating with their dead bodies which we see more often,
⦁ Green burial: body straight into ground in a biodegradable box, shooting atoms back into the universe to assist in new life, rock marking the place: VIVRE LA DECAY
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Free writing on thoughts for 5min perf tomorrow:
Green burial submerged in soil, audio or something playing that could narrate the reflections, OR have everyone crowded around me installation style and perform in the round. where to begin and where to end. how to incorporate actionism, and bubbles. bubbles and soil and the body. The rotting body discovered cast aside, how to encourage identification, maybe a big sign that says you on it, what about dirtying some pink fluff, the dross of every day existence, dirtied and no longer beautiful. It's for your own good F and others to relfect on the dead but am I dead or playing dead or playing decomposition or playing something altogether different which I don't know. It seems like the last, like it has this strnage vibe and there's this big thing that I can't quite place that si the whole frame. what to wear and what to think and how to show the self when it's sort of about there not being the self. Dancing the no-self, dancing the darkness, dancing the worms that animate the corpse. Dancing the Rick and Morty Episode where it's intergalactic TV and the dead cat ladies cats make her get good for some lovin and sampling that and then having a sound which sort of plays it out. The sound of crawling and tiching and maggots moving and flies, need to do the track for that. And what of making it a loving experience, decomposing lovingly HOW? to decompose is to fall apart, host life, scatter and erode into something so fine, it's just dust. Dust, dust is an important material- AND WHAT OF MY SKIN? I should use my laundry dust and use my skin. Do I have different stations and move between them? each one would have it's own setting and surrounding that would make it more identifyable what'a happening. And what actions to use anyways? Impossible actions meets Butoh or just Actionism? And where's the place for the audience and their own visualisations? WHERE IS THE SPACE FOR STILLNESS, how to guide or not guide this?