Thursday 17 July 2014

Michael Klien, 17th July, 2014

Parliaments... this one a closed one. Only a set of instructions. Act (move, walk, sit, sleep,do not 'perform', move in full throughtful body, Badieu?). Observe (someone must always be in your peripheral view, remain engaged with the group, avoid self-containedness, full on gaze).  Ponder (deep thoughts, immersed). Sediment (what remains, what settles, what recurs).  All these form a recursive set of states of entering, pursuing, living 'parliaments'.  Some donts:  no sitting against a wall, no water, no toilet break, no notebooks (there goes ' thoughts on the go ' and the computer in the corner), no 'creativity' (meaning trying to be choreographically 'clever'), no 'performing touch, (this  led to debate - what touch, which  touch, when touch - finally sort of an understanding - socially conditioned touch - a hug, a wave, 'contact-improv' touching)...  William James (brother to Henry) is read...(funny one day I must tell Michael that most of his refrences are late 'Romantics' -James, Rilke, Rodin, Blake- and male at that, many ' nature-spritualists' who saw salvation from industrialism through immersion in nature and nature's ways - is that were we are at?).