I am that I am
from the sun,
and people are not my measure.
Lawrence, “Aristocracy of the Sun”
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This intensive way of reading, in contact with what’s outside the book,
as a flow of meeting other flows, one machine among others, as a series
of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing
to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to
interact with other things, absolutely anything…is reading with love
Gilles Deleuze
Brief synopsis for Scuttler text and ICA performance
As a bit of back drop weve written a script. we were at the national
theatre studio working on a short Tennessee williams play about dh
lawrenece for 3 weeks.
which is ongoing but out of this reserach/work/ expanded thought we
wrote a script and a character emerged based around the Roland Kirk
track ‘Inflated tear’
its about Kirk’s hospital experience i think, and going blind at the
end. You hear a voice shouting help him which is quite heavy which we
lifted as initial dialogue. our time working/ cleaning in nursing, old
people homes amidst a silent mining village or town, mental health
overlapping the workplace/ family makeup set aside a scorched
saddleworth moor thats being devoured and missed. returning home
quietly, but too mishaped to understand the void between you and them:
the scuttler cum ‘knocker-up’ he or she who would walk the early streets
banging on bedroom windows with a long broom/ a miners alarm clock,
often women our scuttler wanders the streets day and night in search/
for what? her brothers soul? lost to the moors once.
home help/ assisted suicide, the Williams play is an hour long death
scene, as are Lawrences letters, elegant, bleak and sacred,
THE SCUTTLER at the ICA
the play/script will form the basis /force/curatorial move/hook to hang
the night on we have invited a variety of artists/actors/performers and
mucians to activate the script in an expanded/experiemental/improvised
durational theatre work we will be there from midday/working /rehersal
but open to the public there will be no formal culmination as such but
we will have things emerging thru the day as we are getting to know
each other most wont have met until the day then by 7ish well start
something more formal in the main gallery and theatre space with films
in the cafe bar area. using the area and energies to dissipate through
the ICA corridors/ theatre/galleries/ bar which will close at 11pm in
which we will all move to the cafe bar til 1am
