'Moonlight' is the word for Moonlight

 

Sun September 23rd 2012 

hi Adena,

I was in the studio yesterday trying to understand what I want from this work. What my body is doing in the space.

I feel like its not about making the body alien but about annihilating it. 'I am Lauren, but less and less.' (the last page of 'The Body Artist'), stripping it of vanity and meaning, making it hollow.... and this is where the real violence is; this shutting down of the body, disconnecting from the comforts of knowing something or someone.

And I feel like the key to finding this is duration.... just a few movements, that are sustained long enough to go past meaning to allow the true weight of my body and time (and silence?) to exist in the space. I think this is a very hard task and on Friday i felt myself pull back from it maybe because  I felt some need or desire to entertain and it felt useless, just me performing tricks.... I don't want to make performance like that. Just need to keep digging deeper in....

b xx

'Moonlight' is the word for Moonlight is a new work looking at 'The Body Artist' by Don Delillo. These are extracts from the first stage development in September 2012. Performed by Brigid Jackson and Dan Shlusser, directed by Adena Jacobs with sound by Kelly Ryall.