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Sam Miller: on Conversation Without Walls: Bearing Witness, March 11, 2016 – Danspace Project
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Sam Miller: on Conversation Without Walls: Bearing Witness, March 11, 2016

March 18, 2016

Part 7

“Now that I am beyond the initial paralysis of calling one’s first teachings into question, I am left with: be critical and sing.”

C.D. Wright

 

Eiko_bowl of water_Sam Miller

Fragments from Friday
(Words almost heard)

Catastrophe of meaning
Always hurtling toward catastrophe
Catastrophe practice
Time stops
Time must have stop
Time curved so that looking forward you can see the back of your own
head
Capital acceleration
The autonomy of Eiko time
Mutated declensions
Singular / plural
Past / future
Timeways that send us sideways into that future
Station
Stationary
From the Finland / Fulton Station
To St. Marks where memory is the destination
Though the lost dance process
Leaves its own definition of loss
That permanent gesture
luciana and the body perpetual in mourning
Capture / release
Photo / noh photo / performance is time’s rebuttal
The insistence of the body refutes the tyranny of expectation
The only object in this room is that bowl of water
The insistence on the value of being
The work is not hard if you don’t think about the radiation
Remember, Andromache is the consequence of force
Hesitate before you remember
The consequence of no consequence
Stations of the body and the illusion of separation
Nobody? Really? No/body?

 

Danspace Project Writer-in-Residence Sam Miller is the founder and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has also served as the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), President of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and President and Executive Director of Jacob’s Pillow.

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