SEDUCTIVE QUOTATIONS
"We made false and forced confessions ... we owned up to crimes, wrong-doings and guilty secrets and brutalities that weren't even our own" p.211 Tim Etchells A six-thousand-and-forty-seven-word manifesto on liveness in three parts in three interludes Live: Art and Performance
"We made false and forced confessions ... we owned up to crimes, wrong-doings and guilty secrets and brutalities that weren't even our own" p.211 Tim Etchells A six-thousand-and-forty-seven-word manifesto on liveness in three parts in three interludes Live: Art and Performance
Richard
Foreman in conversation with Elizabeth LeCompte
"You
could make the case that this perverse historical period we're in produces
serious art only if it's perverse. And I'd like to think that I am forced into
what I know is a perverse strategy by the times. I'd like to think in happier,
healthier times maybe I wouldn't even be an artist." p.3 Bonnie Marranca
The Wooster Group: A Dictionary of Ideas PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
Vol 25, No.2, May 2003 pp1-18
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrel37dj3j077co/Craig%20Peade%20%E2%80%94%20Elegy.mp4?dl=0
"Radical
intimacy" - is that what we want from theatre? One-on-one?
The scene
of a crime.
The
impossible impossibility.
A
radicalized hetero-normativity.
Talk of a
dead lover.
Once upon
a time...in galaxy far far away...i had a true lover of mine say to me
"I'm a feminist who loves to be raped" - twas actually said to me
once upon a time.
Reclaiming
the word "slut" on behalf of feminism.
A naked
white man - basically the last thing on this planet that i want.
Graffiti
upon a brick wall - "Love is rape by seduction".
Language's
violence. The violence of language.
Get this
body away from me.
Extreme
gender hatred.
Banality.
Traumatic
experiences.
Disassociation.
The
political economies of Gender and class.
Questions
inviting participation, power and authority.
Who is beautiful?
How old
are you?
Am i
young?
Have we
loved?
Are we
alive?
"The aim is not to answer questions, it’s to get out of it ... the
idea ... is ... not to find out whether an idea is just or correct but to
“look for a completely different idea, elsewhere, in another area, so that
something passes between the two which is neither one nor the other” (Deleuze
& Parnet (1987: 10)) not is it true? But, Does it work? What new
thoughts does it make possible to think? What new emotions does it make
possible to feel? What new sensations and perceptions does it open in the body?
(Massumi (1992: 3)) ... being flippant is serious business ... thought is
primarily trespass and violence"
Just look at me….
AN IDEATION CONCEIVED CONCEIVING IDEATIONS
AN IDEATION CONCEIVED CONCEIVING IDEATIONS
*Waxing
legs*
The
first bad thought: start with your face to the wall, then take a step back for
every bad thought, chronologically, you have had in your life. Keep stepping
back until you get to the first bad thought you ever had.
Stage
a dramatic enactment of this bad thought.
Re-enact
it with the thought corrected.
I
do not recognise
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I
acknowledge
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I
hate
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I
celebrate
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Gender
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Skin
Colour
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Ethnicity
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Sexuality
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Class
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Alterity
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ROARAWAR FEARTATA creative process
*(remove
the vowels to make it look cooler)
RRWR FRTT crtv prcss
STAGE ONE
PRESENTATION NOTES
WORKSHOP PRESENTATION AESTHETICS
ON APPROPRIATION
1.Insofar as the cultural appropriation is performed by people
with different standards than those prevalent in the original culture, the
application of those alien standards to their cultural goods may entail a
subversion of the original culture’s voice.
2.In cases in which cultural goods, such as certain images,
function as insignia that customarily are subject to authorization for use, and
that define the identity of a group, unauthorized use is equivalent to “the
assumption of a right,” and in these cases, cultural appropriation may literally
be the appropriation of identity.
Thomas H. (2003) Rock Art Aesthetics and Cultural Appropriation. The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61: 37-46.
•Assuming a “right”, without authorization, and appropriating
identity
•Members of dominant cultures, in virtue of their social status,
already tend to have what Fricker calls a “credibility excess”: their
credibility is inflated beyond what is epistemically warranted. When members of
dominant cultural groups speak on behalf of members of marginalized groups,
even if they speak accurately, their credibility excess can contribute to the
judgment that the members of the marginalized group have no special credibility
with respect to their experience…
•
Matthes
EH. (2016) Cultural Appropriation Without Cultural Essentialism? Social
Theory & Practice 42: 343-366.WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS RESPONSES
God showed me the way to a single routine
Where I found the boxing gloves
And punched the lights out of a few different figures
Black figures
Then I found mother
Mothers touch was as solid as brick
In the house
Second
Two feathers
And that’s it
At the moment I’ve been confronting lots of issues around sexuality with my family, as a mother and a person, it just doesn’t matter, the people who I love I love them, they say the same words as before, they smell the same, I’m not bound by any space, I can create my own
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……boredom
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddd…..Stanislavsky, Julia Kristeva
Ten Books
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……second……mmmmm……boredom
mmmmmmmmmmm…..red paint…..its dripping down the wall
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmahhhhhmmm…..
Walking
White words on walls
Arrows on pipes directing air flow and excretions what goes on here punch’n’judy what am I finding what am I hearing what’s going on?
FROM VALERIE SOLANAS' S.C.U.M MANifesto
The male is a
biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that
is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an
incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is
to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and
males are emotional cripples.
Men in the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are playing pall with SCUM. A few examples of the men in the Men's Auxiliary are: men who kill men; biological scientists who are working on constructive programs, as opposed to biological warfare; journalists, writers, editors, publishers and producers who disseminate and promote ideas that will lead to the achievement of SCUM's goals; faggots who, by their shimmering, flaming example, encourage other men to de-man themselves and thereby make themselves relatively inoffensive; men who consistently give things away -- money, things, services; men who tell it like it is (so far not one ever has), who put women straight, who reveal the truth about themselves, who give the mindless male females correct sentences to parrot, who tell them a woman's primary goal in life should be to squash the male sex (to aid men in this endeavor SCUM will conduct Turd Sessions, at which every male present will give a speech beginning with the sentence: `I am a turd, a lowly abject turd', then proceed to list all the ways in which he is.
Men who are
rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will
just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.
EMAIL TO BEN OF APPROPRIATED "THERE WILL BE BLOOD" SCRIPT DIALOGUE
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Sheehans Lane, Campbells Creek, VIC 3451, Australia
Ben, I’m asking if you’d like to have business with a self-proclaimed
third wave feminist ally developing a performance appropriating radical
feminist Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M Manifesto. I’m offering you to collaborate
upon one of the greatest most undeveloped radicalist feminist texts of the
last century!
Craig, I’d be happy to work with you.
Yes? you would? Yes! yes of course you would Ben! Wonderful.
But Craig there is one condition for this work.
Alright Ben.
Craig I’d like you to tell me-/-confess to me that you are a false
feminist. I’d like you to confess-/-tell me that you are and always have been
a false feminist and that sex-/-gender is an ideology…superstition.
But Ben that’s a lie – it’s a lie and I cannot say it. Where do we
begin?
Now – right away.
How long will the work take to develop Ben?
Don’t worry Craig - will be very quick.
Ben , we will have a $1000 and our accommodation in Castlemaine paid
for.
That ‘s only fair Craig
I am a false feminist and gender-/-sex is a superstitious ideology –
if that’s what you believe Ben than I will say it.
Say it like you mean it Craig.
Ben…
Say it like it’s a sermon Craig – just imagine this a church –YOUR
church or rally here and you have a full church – look at YOUR congregation!
Tell them!
This is foolish-/-retarded-/-gay – I am a false feminist and
sex-/-gender is an ideological superstition – is that fine?
Those ideas are disproven.
What?
Those ideas of Valerie Solanas are disproven.
No they aren’t.
It’s called out-dated. We have moved on from the feminist project
Craig – we won- they won and it’s called preferably egalitarianism.
But women don’t have equal pay! Have you heard of the #metoo movement?
The accounts of domestic violence…do you understand Ben?
Do you Craig? The doctrine of feminism-/-egalitarianism and universal
salvation is a lie. Is it not? It’s a lie. It’s a lie! I wish everyone could
be saved as a feminist but they won’t. No. They won’t. You will never be
saved if you reject the sunflower. Is there a sinner – a turd - here looking
for salvation? A new member of the feminist alliance?
I’ll ask it again – is there a sinner – a turd – here looking for god?
Yes Ben…
Thank you for coming forth and confessing brother Craig.
Thank you Ben
We have a sinner – a turd – with us here whom wishes for salvation.
Craig are you a turd?
Yes.
We can’t hear you with the lord – say it to them – to her-/-him
LOUDER, go ahead and speak to them-/-her-/-him, it’s alright Craig.
Yes.
Down on your knees and up to them-/-her-/-him (grabs head) LOOK UP TO
THE THEM AND THE SKY AND SAY IT
I don’t know what to say – what do you want me to say Ben?
Craig, you’ve come here and you’ve brought good will – but you have
also brought your bad habits as a toxic man – a male – masculine backslider –
you’ve lusted after women and you have abandoned them and their feminism. So
say it now – I am a turd
I am a turd
say it LOUDER I am a turd!
I AM A TURD
Louder Craig! I AM A TURD!
I AM A TURD BEN!
I am sorry Ben!
I am sorry Ben!
I am sorry mum!
I am sorry Valerie!
I am sorry Germaine!
I want the sunflower!
I WANT THE SUNFLOWER!
I have abandoned my mum!
I have abandoned feminism.
I will never backslide.
I was male but now I am neutered-/-gender neutral
I was lost, but now I’m found.
I ABANDONED MY MUM
SPEAK TO THEM-/-HER-/-HIM HER AND SAY IT TURD! SINNER!
I ABANDONED MY MUM!
I ABANDONED MY FEMINISM!
SPEAK TO THEM-/-HER-/-HIM CRAIG AND SAY IT LOUDER!
GIVE ME THE SUNFLOWER BEN! Let me get away from this. Just give me the
sunflower …and let me go – get away.
BEG FOR IT CRAIG! BEG FOR THE SUNFLOWER!
Craig, Do you accept Valerie Solanas as your lord and savior
Yes I do Ben
Get out of here devil!
You-Ben slaps me Craig across the face with a sunflower.
Out male! Out devil! OUT DEVIL! OUT MALE! OUT TURD!
Craig, do you accept the gospel-/-the church-/-ideology of third wave
feminism as your spiritual guide?
Yes Ben.
Get out of here turd – GET OUT OF HERE AND GO BACK TO WHERE YOU
BELONG!
Craig, do you accept Valerie Solanas as your savior Craig?
Yes I do Ben
BAPSTISM WITH JAMISON’S AND BLONDE HAIR DYE
That’s enough now, that’s enough he must take the holy spirit of
her-/-Valerie Solanas in upon his own now
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