Hello everyone!
Over this weekend I turned 30 which was nice…..I don’t really have much to say.
Below is this weeks etude
The Adjacent Possible by Joshua-Michele Ross
free
from Wednesday 16th Feb
The Adjacent Possible is a live, interactive theater experience. Using music, storytelling, improvisational performance, and technology the audience is transformed into an orchestra. The show culminates in the performance of a piece of music — the first and last ever to take place.
The Adjacent Possible is…
… an evolving, communal orchestra where each participant becomes a musician.
… an extended meditation on the nature of togetherness, desire, and possibility
…a chance to get lost together while we are apart
ABSOLUTION / TOILET SIGNS [standard stare] by Ivan Chang
free
available now
I stopped being interested in assholes who talked about wanting to do puzzles. I stopped wanting something that lasted a long time and made me dizzy.* Gratification now! Lucidity now! Show me the signal and I show you my origin story (I’ll hold up a mirror).
Absolution / Toilet Signs continues Ivan Cheng’s ongoing proposition of Standard Stare, a work around infrastructure, desire, and distance. It is a filmed situation in the context of lament.tv, and will be performed by Gailė Griciūtė reprising the role of ‘salad bar’, and Cheng in the role of ‘simple disgrace/complex gremolata/sugar baby ex-angel’. Absolution / Toilet Signs will be performed with Mire Lee’s sculpture in absentia.
The Fleecing by Almanac Dance Theatre
from $10
from 18th Feb
The Fleecing returns to the digital realm after a critically acclaimed and spiritually calamitous run in 2021. The Order of Mammon must contend with the Bumblefish’s silence since a mysterious message one year ago has left the Order in chaos. Which of the Devotees will win the war of ideas, sacred dances, acrobatic feats, and prognostication, and lead the acolytes into the future? Only you can decide.
Welcome to The Order of Mammon,
a secret society dedicated to power, money, and our beloved and feared deity, The Bumblefish.
As newly initiated acolytes, it is your job to choose the most worthy devotee performer to serve as an earthly vessel for our cult’s scaly God.
As you make your way through the Order’s Secret Sacred Sanctum you may encounter lavish displays of circus, one-on-one immersive rituals, creatures, clowns, and characters of all variety as the devotees vie for you to place your voting tokens in their alters.
Which devotee will prove they are worthy to be the next host for the Bumblefish?
Will they even survive should they be chosen?! (historically… they don’t.)
Only you can decide the future of The Order at The Fleecing.
free
available now
Today death does not exist. It is not talked about. It is not addressed, nor is it mentioned. It is a taboo.
Death is concealed, hidden. We consider it as something that is not part of life.
The Catholic religion has its own responsibilities, but our model and way of life perfectly espouses the desire to remove the issue. The moment we are in direct contact with death, our fears come to the surface in an explosive way. Common sense and common sense are no longer of any use. It is not enough to know that life has a cycle, that one's parents grow old, that it is possible to fall ill. Not even the consolatory vision that religion offers us is enough. Death remains death. A dark spectre of which we are infinitely afraid. In an extremely tragic way. In an extremely comical way.
Today, growing old as well as ill is not allowed. The myth of eternal youth is rampant. We are turning into a Dorian Gray world. The old and the sick live separately from the rest of the population. The weak, the hindered and the dangerous have their own place to stay. Even the dead by definition live separately from the living. We are aware that this has not always been the case, but for us today it is a fact.
We look at ourselves and try to photograph ourselves. To question ourselves about the reasons that lead us to experience death as a foreign body. Violent. Traumatic. An event we cannot live with or reconcile. Certainly seeing a dead body for the first time at the age of twenty is different from having always seen it. Seeing an animal die. To kill it. It is different from finding it dissected and packaged. Encountering death on a daily basis today is the exception. But the rule continues to make us mortal.
The way death is approached and treated today is deeply burning and full of contradictions. It is a slow, underground combustion, perhaps for this reason more painful and unhealable. Every now and then it manages to spurt outwards before returning to flow under the surface. Covered by an ash that is never able to extinguish it. But which insists on relegating it to the sphere of an individualism that denies its collective elaboration.
CHAMPIGNONS by YoungSoon Cho Jaquet
free
available now
A choreography for 3 performers, created at far° - festival des arts vivants Nyon, Théâtre de l'Arsenic Lausanne, 2009.
In their stunning diversity mushrooms can be delicious or dangerous, invisible or spectacular. Prolific, their multiplication delights or alarms. YoungSoon Cho Jaquet produces choreographies marked with a similar strange quality.
She invites the audience to follow her joyous delirium. And it works! So enjoyable it is to let oneself be surprised by the game of perception and transformation of reality that she masters so well. Hallucinogenic, atomic maybe, Champignons promises to open the scenic space to unsettling uncertainties...
That’s everything for this week. We’re on 260 subscribers which is very lovely.