Physical pain; physical deterioration, the possibility and certainty of duration, A yellow liquid, urine, but not urine, transferred from one bowl to another; a man claps, a man claps, a man claps, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap…….Repeatedly you will genuflect; rise; and repeat; your pain is palpable; pain. Another man claps – is he a rebel? Or a conformist, or is he a red bull – is he regurgitating Red Bull? Red Bull=Rebel=Red Bull=rebel=redbull=Rebel=Red Bull=rebel; one vessel (One Vessel) drained, one vessel filled; to the point of overflowing; cascade; a steady trickle (piss); you are a vessel of transference – a receptacle; A man urinates (piss) against a board and uses a tee-shirt to mop up his own urine (t-shirt);
Meditative
Rebel Rebel – your face is a mess; Every me and every you – songtitles might aptly be the measure of a life;
Can I join in? Can I join in?
Redundancy of labour; wasted effort; dysfunctional labour; and back again – vessel to vessel; labour intensive;
Labour – the act of giving birth – the ultimate labour; that which imagines a life; that which produces outside of a cheap fiscal judgement (system); beyond price;
A wall that is not a wall; a wall that is not; a divide; a division; a division of means – a socially divisive device; a device to divide; division; social division; (anti-social) that which cannot be breached; that which cannot be reached – you who cannot be reached; beyond reach; beyond connection; out of touch.
Bound; an arm bound; and unbound; binding and unbinding; (bonds) all that I have seen; all that I have not seen; all that I have not (seen) – scene;
Binding and unbinding; binding; unbinding; bound by convention and unbound; boundless; that which is; that which is; that which is not;
That which is not (is);
Lucky rabbit; dead rabbit; lucky dice; furry dice; rabbit without fur – naked and eviscerated – One bowl emptied and one bowl filling up; one empty; one full – temporarily; one being emptied, one being filled – in the process of emptying and filling (process)
A bowl of milk; a coffee; Bound arm; bathed milk; a balm; soothed but with no comfort
(no relief)
The milk is spilt – there’s no point in crying over it; what’s done is done; there is no point in regretting what has passed; the past is done; the past cannot be changed (the past is a lie) I cannot change what has been done; neither can you – we are all products of the past; the future is not known and the present only exists when it is already done; the present does not exist;
Polish your shoes; polish your shoes – is it school tomorrow?
A wall that moves and wobbles – an imperfect wall; a wall not fit for purpose; (wall)
Put whisky in your shoes – will it make them shine?
Trousers off; shirt off; t-shirt off; are those shoes shining yet? Put on your whisky shoes; put on your shoes;
put on your piss t-shirt;
Keep filling the bowl until it overflows; keep filling the bowl; badly done DIY;
Please keep swinging that t-shirt (keep swinging) a different one; black this time and not white and piss-soaked (piss); Lemons; boots and shoeboxes; Strings and threads; walk around; walkabout; walk the walk but don’t talk the talk; Smash a stool and make a banner-stand; Harold Pinter – The Caretaker – has care been taken? Whose duty would it be to care? – who fucking cares? Who fucking cares?
Shadows and lights – reproductions and copies; in focus and out of focus (focus)(focus);
Redundancy;
Children – what are they making of this? – this pointlessness; this redundant labour?
The Caretaker – take good care, my friend – always take good care; take care of that which needs to be taken care of; always; what are those things that need to be taken care of? – how is that decided; how does one decide? I don’t care; I don’t fucking care – nobody fucking cares; Rabbit skinned; rabbit-skin glue; rabbit come unstuck; unstuck; you have come unglued; unhinged; you are a loose cannon – a fucking liability; liability; lie-ability; able to lie; you are a fucking liar; able; capable; a capable liar; culpable; a culpable liar; we are all fucking culpable, we are all responsible; for our actions and for our words;
Rabbit – man; man – rabbit
man = rabbit ; rabbit = man
man|-----pole-----|rabbit|(wall)
clearing up the pieces – picking up the bits; tying up the loose ends;
Swinging the lead (keep swinging)(boys)(and girls); swinging a dead cat; swinging a t-shirt.
A stag; caught in the light; a photograph of a stag, stapled to a piece of wood and held in the beam of a projector.
Let it shine; let it shine on; let it shine on; shine on; stag; shine on – moon; moon-stag.
Caught in the glare; caught in the light;
Bone, a piece of bone; a scapula; a shoulder blade (bone); A board with nothing on it; held aloft; like a banner; display; a display; proclaiming something and nothing (nothing);
Converse; Allstars;
The converse; spit and bile spit and whisky; let it all out; letting it all out; physically degraded and mentally focussed;
A false wall; falsity (=);
You write; I write;
whisky and spit; more spit than whisky; what is done and what is not done; that which is liked and that which is unliked;
That which is liked;
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Castor – spin; castor spin; castor spin; spin; spin; spin spin sugar – caster-sugar; castor, sugar; (sweet)
Eyes covered and trembling – with fear? with excitement? with anticipation – pants around your ankles; gaffer-taped eyes – that which can be seen and that which cannot be seen (seen); a woman drinks juice – slurping loudly;
Furry dice tied to your cock – lucky?
Trembling hands carrying a bowl of an unknown liquid mixed with saliva – it looks like urine; walkaround walk around; walker round; walk – a – round walker round this cool damp space; these dice may bring no good fortune – empty totems hanging like a sad scrotum in this cold air (scrotum)
rabbit cold and naked is hung on a nail driven into a wall – already there; conveniently driven; a repository, a resting place, a convenient perch.
Wood and ribbon; ribbon and wood – percussive clatter on bare tiles. It’s all bared; bare-arsed and open onto the world; clatter, bang, clatter, bang; keep turning the castor; keep turning the wood;
muscle rub; embrocation; deep-heat – feeling the heat; smell the liniment, smell the ointment; smell the coffee; spit in the soup (wake up) –
red ribbon; wound and unwound
red ribbon – a wound
wound = wound;
a biscuit up the arse – with a bite out of it; audience participation; an invitation, of a sort; (digestive) (alimentary);
candle and red binding; but not bound together in the same person (bound, separate);
Dead rabbit procession; finding balance; a hand also bound in red ribbon; bound and unbound (wound and unwound);
rabbit – man ; man – rabbit
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(floor)
Fork ; red-ribbon-bound-hand; fork; red ribbon; fork; red ribbon whisky and shoes, shoes and whisky; knife and lemon; lemon squeezed into shoes; lemon shoes (squeezed)(tight);
whisky on shoes; whisky shoes; that will not burn (burn);
whisky shoes – that will not burn;
whisky = shoes
candlelight; rabbit; rabbit; candlelight;
Totem; photographs; images; shoe burn rabbit; burn; burn;
whisky; spit – dribbles down your totem-pole; dribbles under your shoe; candle wax; dripped onto printed images; printed image; the re-presentation of the re-presented;
burn marks on the non-wall; wall that is no wall (wall); whisky and spit passed from one mouth to another – an alcoholic blowback;
spit and whisky; whisky and spit – a banner and a stool inadvertently fall; a binding becomes tighter and looser; undesigned and unchoreographed;
green hands; green feet; red shoes red ribbon – bound and unbound; a totem and shoe – leaned casually against a wall; proximal; proximity; close in space.
Dysfunctional labour; ways of thinking about and relating through art; (fart)
a man with a stool on his arm walking the floor on all fours.
A red-ribbon – wound and knotted and un-knotted and wound and bound; a wound – shared and unbound between two people;
drawing with urine – urine drawings; finely traced (piss)
Four legs of a stool; placed into holes punched in a wall with a claw hammer;
echoes of a ‘ghost’ playing repeatedly; strapped to a left leg; (a ghost on the left)
A piss-soaked t-shirt (urine) – lovingly treasured and held like a child on a left shoulder; wash your feet with whisky; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost…………………………………the word is and isn’t; is both ghost and is not – trace and re-presented thing that speaks of ghost and is a ghost of a former incarnation and presence
– a re-presenting (in this space);
a lucky black cat; or an unlucky one? loving; cosseting, loving t-shirt (piss); loving the ghost knocking on the wall; let the ghost in;
dressing; undressing; dressing; undressing; dressing; undressing;
loving some dead thing – like a stillborn child clutched to a shoulder (a ghost on the left); knocking; knocking; knocking – is there anybody there? – OUI, JA; no – there is nobody;
pleat; unpleat; repeat; dress and undress; ritual; ritual; ritual; ritual; ritual; ritual; ritual; repeat; there are no ghosts here; only the ghosts of a previous incarnation; ghost; ghost; - a ghost; a ghost; a ghost; aghast; aghast; aghast at a ghost (ghost)
possibility of performance; certainty of duration; possibility; certainty; keep knocking, but you can(‘t) come in; see – you’re already here; already present; arrived; present and correct; (pre-sent); a ghost; recognised and familiar; you are here; I am here; haunting; familiarity; known and unknown; knowing and unknowing; know and unknow; dress and undress; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; welcome and unwelcome; sleeping, walking, sleepwalking; dressing and undressing; rabbit dressed as dead baby; stillborn? (still born) binding and unbinding in red ribbon – head bound; head unbound (headlong) bound; unbound; skin cleaned with cut fruit; split apple caressing skin and removing colour (duty of care); lemon juice drizzled on skin, this colour cannot be removed, green stain (remnant); no more ghosts; dissipated into the night; gone from whence they came – audible apparition; wash feet with whisky; this stain will not be removed (residue); wound and unwound, bound and unbound, boundless, unboundaried, boundaried; all bound (bound)
columns – columns make up a body, a print of columns, an image which might make up a body; a body of columns (support)
DRAMAINVOLVINGAROPE
rebel rebel; rebel rebel; rebel rebel……………………………………………………………………………………............................
two pieces of wood are clattered together – re-visiting the past – recent and long ago – your face is a mess; rebel rebel – you’ve torn your dress; to untangle and to tangle; to tangle; to re-tangle; to untangle (tangled);
rebel, rebel – your face is a mess (you’ve come undone)
rebel rebel, red bull red bull, you’ve drunk too much; red bull red bull, you look pretty fucked; stress makes people smoke more; I don’t smoke; smoking is an unhealthy habit – it is not a ‘bad habit’ – there are no bad habits; in fact, smoking is a pretty good one – it’s habit forming fairly easily, in a compulsive way (addict)(add.); my habits are my own fucking business – I don’t ask for yours; you don’t need to ask for mine; a photograph is stapled to a piece of wood, these totems are amassing; screensaver – everyday life is a screensaver for when the real stuff begins; no projection – the projection has left with the ghosts; no ghosts, no projection; goodbye to the rebel; goodbye to the rebels; goodbye to the ghosts; (ghost);
knife; microphone; knife-edge; a trembling body – trembling with exertion; there was something I wanted to tell you; it was funny – but not anymore; covering yourself with boot polish will not help you to blend in socially;
the shape of things to come
Walker’s Bitter
If you are short of ideas, a glass of Romanoff will stimulate your imagination
Lucky dice; furry dice – hang them in your windscreen; hang them from your washing line……(hang them from your cock)(hang them from someone else’s cock); it’s all the fucking same to me;
Joules’ Bitter
(bitter)
nailing photographs / postcards to the ceiling; a lull (hiatus)
equivalence between a head bound in string and a ball of string – if a head exists inside a ball of string then does a ball of string exist inside a head?
dead-rabbit; dead-rabbit wrapped in piss-soaked t-shirt (urine) and immersed in yellow liquid and saliva; placed in a bowl; wall that is not a wall; disappearing behind a wall that is not a wall; carrying totems; carrying charms; bearing and forbearance; winding and unwinding; binding and unbinding;
to crawl; to crawl and hold your head; pacing; pacing and carrying totems (charms); walking – Walker – walking – a walker; pacing and circumscribing the space; to sit and pause to reflect; to think; to decide on next moves; to consider the next action; to wait and to be unsure, but to wait, anyway, for the thing that might happen next; or might not – but something surely will; to get up and walk away – walker – a walker;
welcome; welcome and unwelcome; welcome to this space; leave when you will; leave and walk away; balance – all a question of balance and unbalance; finding a balance in this space; finding space in which to balance; to present a dead rabbit in a golden liquid; wrapped in a piss-stained t-shirt (urine); to be wrapped in red ribbon – bound and unbound; a spring-link (link) a karabiner (link) a spring-hitch (link); click and click – open and close; punctuation (possibility|impossibility); that which is; that which is not; that which is this;
backwards; unravelling; backwards – re-visiting; backwards; (measured)
Marx; Marx; Marx; Marx; Mark’s; Marx?
Marx English; Marx Jewish; Marx Victoria; Marx wolf; wolf; Wolfe; wolves; Marx wolves; keeping the Virginia from the door; your arm is tiring and your muscles are trembling; balance; it’s all about balance; tethered and untethered a bone scrapes the floor as a red ribbon is paraded your arm is tired; and there are ghosts – Virginia’s ghost; red ribbon and scraping bone; your arm is tired; a quiet ghost, a gentle haunting; bone on floor; your arm is tired; ghost; ghost; ghost; ghost; unravelling backwards; back in time; (ghost); back through time; (ghost); bone on floor; (ghost); your arm is tired; time; your arm is tired; ghost; ghost, ghost; (arm); ghost; your arm is tired; ghost; ghost, ghost; no more.
Artists: Judit Bodor; Victoria Gray; Mark Greenwood; Justin McKeown; Kiki Taira; Nathan Walker.
