Tuesday, December 12

Sitting on my couch...
I finally allow myself to breathe

1.


2.


3.

December 11,2006

1.
Hunched over
My spine bending towards my sacrum
Later my body will be angry
All throughout
My muscles tense
I'm waiting for them to release
Perhaps not today

I'm a slave to a screen.

2. Role of an audience member:
Sit, Stand
Watch with wide eyes
Make audible noises of agreement and awe
Doze
Laugh
Almost cry but not quite so it wells up in the temples
Cock head to the right, and then to the left
This is what we call active watching
Spectating
Rather, how do I become witness?

3. My body re-interpreted
I experienced some sense of it
not quite

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The day of...

1. Sit with knees bent, forming right angle with ground. Left foot turns over on itself. Hold something large and cumbersome on your lap. Hold something small and warm in your hand. Make your knees shake themselves.

2.

Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
And pluck all your silly strings
And bend all your notes for me
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
The movements were beautiful
All in your ovaries

3.

Touch your head
Touch your mouth
Touch your chin
Touch your mouth
Reach out in front of you
Touch your mouth
Touch your hear
Touch your mouth
Scratch your head
Touch your mouth
and your mouth
your mouth
mouth

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Posted the day after

1. Stand facing a wall, feet shoulder width apart, weight equally divided between both legs. Put your arms out in front of you with your hands flexed towards the sky. Your arms should make a right angle with your lower body. Step forward so your flexed hands touch the wall. Keep your hands in the same place until they get sweaty and tired. After they are sweaty and tired, stay a while longer.

2. Strict self restrictions

3. A heavy load on the back
forcing spine out of alignment
Neck cranes forward
Tendons are strained
Pains begin to form
The weight of my body greater
than yesterday

December 8, 2006

1.


2.
Hold something long and slender
in your right hand
Stay perfectly still
Inhale and exhale (2)
Flail your arms around your head
Uncontrollably

3.

December 7, 2006

1. CLASS

Ribs join together,
Clasping like fingers together
Shoulders relax
Core strengthened

2. WAKING UP


3. INSTALLATION

Folded over,

hinged
and hinged
hinged

unnatural power source
at my chest

the soldiers are secure

December 6, 2006

1. DANCE FOR A BATHTUB

Caring for someone else's body
healing my own

How does my body care for itself while caring for others?

On knees
70 percent right
30 percent left

On forearms
60 to 100 percent left
40 to 0 percent right

Reaching forward and telling my stories

2. COLD DAY IN WINTER

Forehead contracted
Reaching to the top of my head
Feeling those places of tension
congesting

3.

December 5, 2006

1.

2.

3. SUZUKI BASIC #3

From third position, left foot in front
Right piston with bent knee, 45 degrees, sickle inward
Stomp in third to close
Left repeat

December 4, 2006

1.

2.

Ankles hug
Frowning inward
with kness splayed open
Carelessly

Chest like a
sunken ship
rotting inward

3.

This is my first blog ever. My first post ever. This blog is dedicated to an ongoing performance project with a friend in New York. Everyday this week each of us will post depictions of three movements of our bodies. Privately we are also recording the responses to these movement depictions. These blogs are a way for us to communicate across the span of the nation (from Chicago to New York and vice versa) about the traces of our bodies. Although we are separated by a great distance, our bodies are still in conversation. On Monday, December 11 we will embody our recordings and attempt to explore our virtual relationship in a live performance. We will explore simultaneity and the process of instruction in the face of mediation and distance. We hope you will oblige us in this experiment.