De-coupling

 

 

 

And also shifting from active to passive

 

 

 

Allowing for the contradiction of activity

 

 

 

And passive

 

Receiving

 

 

 

Repercussion of alteration

 

 

 

 

 

What is recreation?

 

What if I tense exactly where the moment previously I let go?

 

 

 

 

 

A different beast

 

 

 

Alteration is vanishing

 

 

 

Recreating an impossibility

 

 

 

Allowing tension and enjoying tension

 

 

 

And then

 

Letting Go

 

 

 

 

 

Alteration can create a kind of longing

 

 

 

Liberating

 

 

 

I am very clearly doing this

 

 

 

 

 

Is the space changing?

 

 

 

How is the space changing?

 

 

 

Altering my experience with every recreation

 

Becoming more detailed

 

 

 

 

 

Involuntary Movement

 

And

 

Voluntary Movement

 

 

 

Busy with precision

 

 

 

At the same time to breathe into the leg

 

 

 

Drifting

 

 

 

Recreating focus

 

 

 

Recovering focus

 

 

 

Back on safer territory

 

 

 

Procedures become familiar

 

 

 

Having come from

 

 

 

Having been birthed by

 

 

 

Doing without holding

 

 

 

Forgetting why I should need tension

 

 

 

Recognizing this form as its own

 

 

 

Recreate the form and imagine my hands

 

 

 

Alteration is a gradual and continuously shifting process

 

 

 

It’s a concrete puzzle

 

 

 

An impossibility

 

 

 

Recreating an unknown Which sensation?

 

 

 

 

 

What’s the connect---

 

How does

 

How does the Manipulation connect to the rest of the body?

 

 

 

How am I connecting?

 

Do I need to?

 

 

 

Is that a false model?

 

 

 

Can I use the floor?

 

Can the floor give me a series?

 

 

 

What role do the hands play here?

 

 

 

 

 

How can the floor that supports my arms

 

Stimulate my legs?

 

 

 

How the sensations organized?

 

 

 

Does---

 

Are they framing each other?

 

Are they intermixing chaotically?

 

 

 

Am I grounding through a particular sensation?

 

 

 

Suddenly have a lot of options

 

Because so much of my body touches the floor

 

 

 

There’s intimate space between the body and the floor

 

This membrane

 

Can give the Manipulations

 

 

 

Can be the Manipulations

 

 

 

Multiple points of entry

 

Of leverage

 

 

 

The Manipulations are a series of circles shaped by the floor and bones

 

 

 

There is a clear logic here

 

 

 

Circles on bones

 

Orbits

 

 

 

There is pleasure housed within an imaginary structure

 

 

 

All gestures are

 

Grounded in the floor

 

 

 

Which sensation do I lead with here?

 

 

 

The honey-trap asks me the question if the

 

 

 

The floor can pull me into it

 

 

 

Do you ride the pleasure

 

Or is the pleasure housed?

 

 

 

Do I do it

 

Or does it?

 

 

 

In the end you only have the ground to answer to

 

 

 

Practice as object

 

 

 

My body and the practice speak to one another

 

Without going through me

 

 

 

How can more of the floor give me this?

 

 

 

Am I doing this?

 

 

 

All attempts answer to the floor

 

 

 

Then who is talking?

 

 

 

The floor holds me in many ways

 

 

 

Self

 

Body

 

Practice

 

 

 

How much self do you put back into it?

 

 

 

It’s like density

 

It’s modulation of density

 

 

 

Our self is just a matter of densities

 

 

 

Density of self

 

Density of practice

 

Density of body

 

 

 

They loosen up a bit

 

They mesh together

 

 

 

Compression

 

Expansion

 

Res extensa

 

 

 

Quantum melding

 

 

 

I feel like I’m part of the floor now

 

 

 

Every touch is a deflection

 

Is a joining

 

 

 

Where am I?

 

 

 

 

 

Weight

 

Direction

 

Precision

 

 

 

How much does it need?

 

 

 

Giving and receiving

 

 

 

Is it still the self that enacts perception?

 

 

 

Who is enacted?

 

What is enacted?

 

 

 

Who enacts the recreation?

 

 

 

Where to give less and where to give more?

 

 

 

To give over

 

 

 

When is the giving

 

Becoming perceived as something enforced?

 

 

 

Allowing the self to get in touch

 

 

 

‘Honey trap’ is everywhere

 

 

 

The trap of the self

 

 

 

See myself

 

 

 

Disowned

 

 

 

To give up

 

To give over

 

To give away

 

To give in

 

 

 

To surrender

 

Going with variation

 

The self is retreating

 

 

 

To the place of observation

 

 

 

It’s there in the memory

 

And it’s there in imagination

 

 

 

Do I do it or does it?

 

 

 

The self is recreating its own disappearance

 

 

 

The paradox is that the self is on retreat and at the same time it expands into the space

 

 

 

Back on safer territory

 

 

 

Dressed as the other

 

 

 

Where am I?

 

 

 

Verschiebung

 

 

 

Alteration is a gradual and continuously shifting process

 

 

 

It’s a concrete puzzle

 

 

 

No original practice

 

No original self

 

 

 

Then who is talking?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proposition Three: Create Multiple Points of Entry

Research scores (cross-cut/cross-edited) with 'alteration', 'touch', 'giving', 're-creation', 'connection', 'self'.

Voices: Joa Hug, Paula Kramer & Josh Rutter

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