Month: December 2024

Archetypal Bodies Prototype #1 This is a re-imagine of my previous work, “VENT!”. My central idea is that, through performance, we access our unconscious, therefore allowing the archetypal spirit to enter our state of being. Stories encapsulate archetypal meaning and the framework of how we think and orient ourselves in this world. So, the essence… Continue reading “Archetypal Bodies” 11

25th Nov 2024 Sensory Listening as one! The arc diagram above by Wayne McGregor represents our minds as a bounded space of images. The upper arc identifies images of what we see and hear out there in the world, as well as what we feel inside of our bodies right now. Our body state is… Continue reading “Archetypal Bodies” 10

Anthony McCall – Solid Light (at Tate Modern) Movements are the tension between dualities, and life feeds on it. The exhibition starts with McCall’s film in a dark room “Landscape for Fire”, to gradually ease the eyes of the darkness inside. As I walked into the next room, my listening heightened while calibrating my vision… Continue reading “Archetypal Bodies” 9

Butoh Part 2 Elaborating on the last post about Butoh, Maggie and I experimented with a text-to-performance approach to explore our Butoh bodies. We used a Butoh-Fu “Gaki, The Hungry Demon” by Hijikata and an excerpt from my work “VENT!”. Butoh-fu is butoh’s notation system. “Fu” means something written, scored, or recorded. For Hijikata, the body… Continue reading “Archetypal Bodies” 8