it's funny like how a fractal keeps changing form, imploding and exploding simultanteously, and seriously dynamic, but the joke is that it is all actually self-similar and repetitive.
(green kamala)
Monday, June 7, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
I WANT TO GO TO JAPAN
AND THE CENTRE FOR COSMIC WONDER.
I WANT GO- DO- THINGS
EAT- AND I LOVE
BLESS THE WANDERING POEM
THAT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE
OF MEANING.
I AM MOMENTING (MO-MEN-TUM-ING)
FULL COLOUR
I HAVE NEVER
HAD PAIN LIKE
THIS-
TEST OF SKIN
BEING
ALL THE WAY INSIDE -
AND BEYOND -
A BODY
OF CONSTRAINT
A BODY OF CONSTANT
CHANGE
GIVE MY ATTENTION TO THE
BELLS OF THE MOMENT
THE POEM I AM SINGING
WITH THE WORDS
SUNG OF WITHOUT
NOISE
I WANT THIS DANCE
TO CONTINUE
FOREVER EVEN IF I AM
NOT WATCHING
A SECOND
OF NOISE
FILLING UP FULL
EAT OPENED CANS OF LOVE
WITH FINGERS.
THE SOUND OF TAUGHT SOLES
ON HARD SURFACES
I CAN- NOT- MOVE
QUICKLY.
I LOST- WHAT
I WAS WATCHING-
I AM ONLY-
AND NOTHING
FILLED WITH
EMPTY ATOMS
HELD CLOSE TOGETHER
AND MOVING
AS EVERYTHING IS-
MOVING
IS THIS WHAT WE CALL DANCE?
IS THIS WHAT WE CALL
BREATH?
IS THIS THE ESSENCE
OF ACROBATICS?
I AM QUANTUM
PHYSICS.
I TRAVEL WITHOUT MOVING
I AM
WONDERING
WITHOUT CARING
OR HOLDING
ANYONE TO IT.
I WANT TO WEAR
MY FACE PAINTED.
GARISH-
ILLUMINATED
LEWD
I BREATH IN EXPERIENCES
WHICH COULD PERHAPS
BE EXPLAINED,
LEAFING THROUGH
PAGES OF PHYSICS
AND MYSTICISM
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS
TO TELL ANOTHER WITH
NO CLUE.
WHERE DO I BEGIN,
AND IS THERE
AN END POINT.
CAN I BE
MAPPED LIKE
A CONSTELLATION
OR MOUNTAIN.
REDUCED TO END
POINTS. ALL POINTS,
JOINED TOGETHER. -
ARE ATOMS
THE SMALLEST ISOLATIONS -
SEPARATE ?
SEPARATE FROM EACH
OTHER BUT IN A DANCE ?
SOUND - MATTER - WAVE - CELL
DO WE EACH
HAVE OUR OWN
SEPARATE COLLECTIONS
OF OSCILLATION?
WHERE DO I BEGIN + END ?
ONENESS ?
I LOVE IT AND
ALMOST UNDERSTAND -
COMPRE- SLIP
IN AND OUT
BEYOND OBVIOUS
REACH OF INTELLECT
CLOSER THROUGH
MARK MAKING,
EMBODIMENT,
ASCENSION
TO
FREQUENCY, ORGASM.
ELECTRIC
BOMBARDMENT
OF EMPTINESS
I AM SITLL
AND EVERY THING MOVES
chay-ya
streaming/writing while
watching/ experiencing
brooke amity stamp’s performance
at MCG
29 May 2010, 6pm
AND THE CENTRE FOR COSMIC WONDER.
I WANT GO- DO- THINGS
EAT- AND I LOVE
BLESS THE WANDERING POEM
THAT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE
OF MEANING.
I AM MOMENTING (MO-MEN-TUM-ING)
FULL COLOUR
I HAVE NEVER
HAD PAIN LIKE
THIS-
TEST OF SKIN
BEING
ALL THE WAY INSIDE -
AND BEYOND -
A BODY
OF CONSTRAINT
A BODY OF CONSTANT
CHANGE
GIVE MY ATTENTION TO THE
BELLS OF THE MOMENT
THE POEM I AM SINGING
WITH THE WORDS
SUNG OF WITHOUT
NOISE
I WANT THIS DANCE
TO CONTINUE
FOREVER EVEN IF I AM
NOT WATCHING
A SECOND
OF NOISE
FILLING UP FULL
EAT OPENED CANS OF LOVE
WITH FINGERS.
THE SOUND OF TAUGHT SOLES
ON HARD SURFACES
I CAN- NOT- MOVE
QUICKLY.
I LOST- WHAT
I WAS WATCHING-
I AM ONLY-
AND NOTHING
FILLED WITH
EMPTY ATOMS
HELD CLOSE TOGETHER
AND MOVING
AS EVERYTHING IS-
MOVING
IS THIS WHAT WE CALL DANCE?
IS THIS WHAT WE CALL
BREATH?
IS THIS THE ESSENCE
OF ACROBATICS?
I AM QUANTUM
PHYSICS.
I TRAVEL WITHOUT MOVING
I AM
WONDERING
WITHOUT CARING
OR HOLDING
ANYONE TO IT.
I WANT TO WEAR
MY FACE PAINTED.
GARISH-
ILLUMINATED
LEWD
I BREATH IN EXPERIENCES
WHICH COULD PERHAPS
BE EXPLAINED,
LEAFING THROUGH
PAGES OF PHYSICS
AND MYSTICISM
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS
TO TELL ANOTHER WITH
NO CLUE.
WHERE DO I BEGIN,
AND IS THERE
AN END POINT.
CAN I BE
MAPPED LIKE
A CONSTELLATION
OR MOUNTAIN.
REDUCED TO END
POINTS. ALL POINTS,
JOINED TOGETHER. -
ARE ATOMS
THE SMALLEST ISOLATIONS -
SEPARATE ?
SEPARATE FROM EACH
OTHER BUT IN A DANCE ?
SOUND - MATTER - WAVE - CELL
DO WE EACH
HAVE OUR OWN
SEPARATE COLLECTIONS
OF OSCILLATION?
WHERE DO I BEGIN + END ?
ONENESS ?
I LOVE IT AND
ALMOST UNDERSTAND -
COMPRE- SLIP
IN AND OUT
BEYOND OBVIOUS
REACH OF INTELLECT
CLOSER THROUGH
MARK MAKING,
EMBODIMENT,
ASCENSION
TO
FREQUENCY, ORGASM.
ELECTRIC
BOMBARDMENT
OF EMPTINESS
I AM SITLL
AND EVERY THING MOVES
chay-ya
streaming/writing while
watching/ experiencing
brooke amity stamp’s performance
at MCG
29 May 2010, 6pm
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you're bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
Rumi - from the poem Birdwings
up to where you're bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
Rumi - from the poem Birdwings
But can you dance?
I have sent you my invitation,
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.
Don't jump up and shout, "Yes, this is what I want! Lets do it!"
Just stand up quietly and dance with me
from the poem The Dance
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I have sent you my invitation,
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.
Don't jump up and shout, "Yes, this is what I want! Lets do it!"
Just stand up quietly and dance with me
from the poem The Dance
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
What if there is no need to change, no need to try to transform yourself into someone who is more compassionate, more present, more loving or wise?
How would this affect all the places in your life where you are endlessly trying to be better?
What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature - gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present?
How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognising and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warm encouragement we need to unfold?
How would this shape the choices you make about how to spend today?
What if you knew that the impulse to move in a way that creates beauty in the world will arise from deep within and guide you every time you simply pay attention and wait?
How would this shape your stillness, your movement, your willingness to follow this impulse, to just let go and dance?
from The Dance - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
How would this affect all the places in your life where you are endlessly trying to be better?
What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature - gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present?
How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognising and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warm encouragement we need to unfold?
How would this shape the choices you make about how to spend today?
What if you knew that the impulse to move in a way that creates beauty in the world will arise from deep within and guide you every time you simply pay attention and wait?
How would this shape your stillness, your movement, your willingness to follow this impulse, to just let go and dance?
from The Dance - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Question: support precedes movement?
present in process
_____
deep listening of the
bodymind
can lose the
tracking of the brain-mind
_____
disentangling of the
brain-mind tracking
(and coming)
into the
intelligence of
the cells
_____
billions and billions of
cells
_____
cells emit light
_____
coming back through
developmental patterns
I felt I couldnt
attend to them with
full consciousness
_____
on rising and integrating
the work through
own movement
I found it easy and
full to move
movement being full
_____
supported by space
inside space
outside space
_____
felt like same consistency
_____
full
_____
supported by cells
_____
clearly embodied cells
_____
feel like am embodying
the cells of
the space around me
the cells of the air
_____
can you embody air?
are you embodying the
physicality of air
or your own metaphysical
bodies?
is embodiment presence?
is embodiment consciousness?
to what extent can you
be embodying?
can you embody the universe?
where is the line between
embodiment and consciousness?
is there one?
_____
is embodying consciousness
different from embodying ones
physicality?
how? why is it different?
_____
after a process of ‘conscious’
embodiment of the cells of
ones physical being
contact with objects and
furniture feels different
there is a softness and fluidity
but it is not an empty feeling,
collapsing into external surfaces --
there is tone and fullness
a sense of integrity,
resilience and oneness.
_____
i feel a profound tiredness
_____
the feeling is restful
in itself
_____
aware of waves of motion
_____
the motion of days
rolling through waves
and tidal patterns
_____
in each moment
the waves and tides
moving through us.
chay-ya
bmc into performance
research
with kim wishart
3 may 2010
present in process
_____
deep listening of the
bodymind
can lose the
tracking of the brain-mind
_____
disentangling of the
brain-mind tracking
(and coming)
into the
intelligence of
the cells
_____
billions and billions of
cells
_____
cells emit light
_____
coming back through
developmental patterns
I felt I couldnt
attend to them with
full consciousness
_____
on rising and integrating
the work through
own movement
I found it easy and
full to move
movement being full
_____
supported by space
inside space
outside space
_____
felt like same consistency
_____
full
_____
supported by cells
_____
clearly embodied cells
_____
feel like am embodying
the cells of
the space around me
the cells of the air
_____
can you embody air?
are you embodying the
physicality of air
or your own metaphysical
bodies?
is embodiment presence?
is embodiment consciousness?
to what extent can you
be embodying?
can you embody the universe?
where is the line between
embodiment and consciousness?
is there one?
_____
is embodying consciousness
different from embodying ones
physicality?
how? why is it different?
_____
after a process of ‘conscious’
embodiment of the cells of
ones physical being
contact with objects and
furniture feels different
there is a softness and fluidity
but it is not an empty feeling,
collapsing into external surfaces --
there is tone and fullness
a sense of integrity,
resilience and oneness.
_____
i feel a profound tiredness
_____
the feeling is restful
in itself
_____
aware of waves of motion
_____
the motion of days
rolling through waves
and tidal patterns
_____
in each moment
the waves and tides
moving through us.
chay-ya
bmc into performance
research
with kim wishart
3 may 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
one experience contains a thousand thoughts in every direction
connections made between points on these lines.
_____
any one point in the body
by way of direct or
indirect linking is in
communication with all
and any other points
in every moment
the concept of these points can be extended into all
related etheric and metaphysical bodies connected to the
physical body in consideration.
_____
on the bus I had a sense of myself being one dot and
being connected to every other person dot in the universe
and then that all cells, matter, and vibrational dots are also connected to every other dot.
and we are each connected to many many dots
if not truly everything at the same time - there is an indirect linking through another who is directly linked.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
After seeing a performance at the Centre for Contemporary Photography called Duelle - 'A dance performance with photographers'
I found myself in the studio considering what it meant to have a dancer and a photographer inside you. Both.
It happened quite naturally and without planning. Firstly I liked the way the light looked and so started taking photos (after having laid on the floor of the studio for 3 hours) and then I played with how the space looked through the eyes of a dancer, and then what my body looked like in space with the restriction of taking the photographs manually myself.
More photos
19 December 2009
Cecil Street Studio
I found myself in the studio considering what it meant to have a dancer and a photographer inside you. Both.
It happened quite naturally and without planning. Firstly I liked the way the light looked and so started taking photos (after having laid on the floor of the studio for 3 hours) and then I played with how the space looked through the eyes of a dancer, and then what my body looked like in space with the restriction of taking the photographs manually myself.
More photos
19 December 2009
Cecil Street Studio
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
oliver emailed me a picture of iceland.
i found it again today and put it up there
where we can see it all the time.
a word spoken becomes vibration
s p a c i a l
affects like ripple
electrical current
a spoken word goes through
time and space travel
concentration and diffusion
sound - matter - wave - cell
play with
how much
release
place syllable spatially.
spaciousness
volume
annunciate
watch
response
word becomes
impetus, partner
part of construction
affect
without
overt
chay-ya
bmc into performance research
after- speaking writing
during witnessing
24 may 2010
bmc into performance research
after- speaking writing
during witnessing
24 may 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Joy Conspiracy (Jet Rachel Faith Williams and me, Chay-Ya Joy Clancy)
i took all photos whilst moving and rachel was playing
they are my toes
March 18, 2010
Dancehouse (gallery studio)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
working with buildings without buildings within the
structure between the walls
decapitated roof tops, score and extracted infra-structures
emphasizing internal structures through extraction
displacement and alteration
removal at special points of stress
opening spaces to redistribute mass
the ambiguity of place versus object
working with absence
the whole house works to receive an intrusion...
Gordon Matta-Clark, text from Open House exhibition recently at the Arts Centre.
structure between the walls
decapitated roof tops, score and extracted infra-structures
emphasizing internal structures through extraction
displacement and alteration
removal at special points of stress
opening spaces to redistribute mass
the ambiguity of place versus object
working with absence
the whole house works to receive an intrusion...
Gordon Matta-Clark, text from Open House exhibition recently at the Arts Centre.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WORK & PERFORMANCE
by Daniel Lepkoff
„As a maker of dances, a designer of theater and an improvising performer,
I am not specifically interested in presenting “dance” movement on the stage.
What is happening
at any moment,
I see as possible material that can be placed in a dance frame.
Each of us exists in an on-going physical dialogue with our environment,
tuning to the details and nuance of our own and
each others’ movement behavior and to the conditions of our present moment.
We observe, we feel, and we act.
We create our own images and
construct our own understandings.
Ordinarily this activity is unconscious.
In the theater I want to stimulate audience and performer alike to consciously and actively create their own images,
and so my work is designed not to tell the audience what it is they are looking at.
Inside of a moment of disorientation, of not knowing, lies an opportunity for a person in the theater
to create their own story.
In these times, we are surrounded by media images designed by others
to manipulate our attention and to control what we know and do not know.
As an artist, the performance event offers me an opportunity to create,
Empty Space.“
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