Post by Admin on May 17, 2014 17:02:43 GMT 8
SO - for the online forum we have decided to use the task (see below) as a platform to get started and to keep practicing this idea of lineage and responding.
Thus, I ask you to keep a daily (or 3 to 4 times a week) journal, where you practice writing and responding to the idea of personal lineage or anything you feel particularly drawn towards.
This is for you to maintain rigour, you don’t need to show anyone what you jot down.
Once a week we all submit a piece of text from either our weeks journalling or something created then and there on the spot.
I will select 3 people which the whole group must respond to each week. This will be rotated so everyone will experience others responding to there work at least once.
When responding let it be like the last task writing above. Consider all the elements and tools aforementioned and don’t be too precious.
Give yourself time to see and listen to the persons work and then a quick 1 minute to respond.
Below is an example of what will happen. We all re-wrote the task 'Personal Lineage' and then selected Emily's text for all of us to respond to. Below is the original and then everyone's interpretations on that.
Here is the original text:
Standing and breathing and shifting and imagining others doing the same with my eyes closed, my toes and tendons at the front of my ankles tensing and releasing. Quads and calves and hamstrings switching on and off like binary counters. There is breathing, then softening. I wait for the weight of my shoulder blades to fall and sink down my back. We stand together in some kind of solidarity with our body maps and open imaginations. We stand together for a while, and then the sounds of falls and slides—the journey begins.
These are the responses:
JACQUI:
The collective breath swaying, building in anticipation of what may happen.
The sense of strength, tension, waiting.
Bones holding muscle.
Yield and wait.
weight, falling.
Connection to the surface beneath me,
building, expanding, release.
Go!
JESS:
It is internal anticipation personified by the moving parts. What is about to being? Sweating without moving, an army of amazons quiver and intake before explosions sound.
KATHLEEN:
With my eyes closed I feel the breathing and shifting as imagination forms the bubbles that flex the tendons of your quads, your calves, your hamstrings, your ankles stand you next to me and mine prepare to fall
into the journey with you.
SAMANTHA:
Marilyn Monroe, but old with melting skin unable to contain the weight and position of her bones. They drip down her body, an army of calcium at her feet.
ELLA-ROSE:
I’m waiting, on the edge of something,
My senses are in overdrive
An electrical anticipation,
A slight hesitation, before, in fact,
The moment takes over.
ISABELLA:
Open Space
A moment before that may
be minuscule and in this
writing has been unpacked.
Solo in time a duo in body.
EMMA:
Standing
Breathing
Shifting
Imagining
Toes
Tendons
Others
Fall, Slides, Fall, Sink back down,
We stand together.
Imaging others.
JO:
Standing certain
Binary counters in
some kind of solidarity
breathing into body maps
and shifting open imaginations
- Distilled further Jo’s final response was….
Binary counters in some
kind of solidarity
Thus, I ask you to keep a daily (or 3 to 4 times a week) journal, where you practice writing and responding to the idea of personal lineage or anything you feel particularly drawn towards.
This is for you to maintain rigour, you don’t need to show anyone what you jot down.
Once a week we all submit a piece of text from either our weeks journalling or something created then and there on the spot.
I will select 3 people which the whole group must respond to each week. This will be rotated so everyone will experience others responding to there work at least once.
When responding let it be like the last task writing above. Consider all the elements and tools aforementioned and don’t be too precious.
Give yourself time to see and listen to the persons work and then a quick 1 minute to respond.
Below is an example of what will happen. We all re-wrote the task 'Personal Lineage' and then selected Emily's text for all of us to respond to. Below is the original and then everyone's interpretations on that.
Here is the original text:
Standing and breathing and shifting and imagining others doing the same with my eyes closed, my toes and tendons at the front of my ankles tensing and releasing. Quads and calves and hamstrings switching on and off like binary counters. There is breathing, then softening. I wait for the weight of my shoulder blades to fall and sink down my back. We stand together in some kind of solidarity with our body maps and open imaginations. We stand together for a while, and then the sounds of falls and slides—the journey begins.
These are the responses:
JACQUI:
The collective breath swaying, building in anticipation of what may happen.
The sense of strength, tension, waiting.
Bones holding muscle.
Yield and wait.
weight, falling.
Connection to the surface beneath me,
building, expanding, release.
Go!
JESS:
It is internal anticipation personified by the moving parts. What is about to being? Sweating without moving, an army of amazons quiver and intake before explosions sound.
KATHLEEN:
With my eyes closed I feel the breathing and shifting as imagination forms the bubbles that flex the tendons of your quads, your calves, your hamstrings, your ankles stand you next to me and mine prepare to fall
into the journey with you.
SAMANTHA:
Marilyn Monroe, but old with melting skin unable to contain the weight and position of her bones. They drip down her body, an army of calcium at her feet.
ELLA-ROSE:
I’m waiting, on the edge of something,
My senses are in overdrive
An electrical anticipation,
A slight hesitation, before, in fact,
The moment takes over.
ISABELLA:
Open Space
A moment before that may
be minuscule and in this
writing has been unpacked.
Solo in time a duo in body.
EMMA:
Standing
Breathing
Shifting
Imagining
Toes
Tendons
Others
Fall, Slides, Fall, Sink back down,
We stand together.
Imaging others.
JO:
Standing certain
Binary counters in
some kind of solidarity
breathing into body maps
and shifting open imaginations
- Distilled further Jo’s final response was….
Binary counters in some
kind of solidarity