Marcel Un-Caged
coming upon a melancholic aBsence
good foR nothing immobility
resounding nOn-communication
through pOetry Marcel
transmogrifieD
flaring feaThered wings and claws
unmuzzling arnarcHic allegorical assemblages
eagle-riding thermAls over hollow shell towers
performing thought rE-toothing language
to gnaw esoteric tRuths onto
headstoned structureS bleachedboney institutions
Q: Language performs twenty-four times better when washing away.
A: Sometimes?
ps Performance Writing weekend at Arnolfini, Bristol 4 – 6 May www.arnolfini.org.uk
questions seed questions crop questions
questionable relationships
reading↔writing writer↔reading reader↔writing writer↔reader writing↔sounding sound↔read reading↔sounding
h’m…
What colour are your eyes?
what colour watches my thoughtfollowing linear left to regimented right jump
down hopskip
down to
the last letterz
[start, return to] and all over
again
[return] shuffle in your seat
smile awareness of self as reader thinking about the colour of your eyes your smile my/your voice asking the colour of your/my eyes eyes settling
Here X and here XXX continue XXXXXXXXXXX
Break/The/Gaze
Do you read this out loud?
twis-ting-eve-ry-syll-a-ble-like-butt-er-weft-through-your-tongue
loud forcing of air to vibrate feeling bzz tckl text breath through throatsinusmouthtonguepalateteethspringLIPS
Probably not
Why not
try (no need for embarrassment no medusa spectating here we’re all in this together)
my shapes your sounds potentially prising words from fluently stainless interior space to shift for themselves amongst she sells sea shells cough up splutter red lorry yellow lorry stutter squeak everyday spasms expelling reason and will and will perhaps will free to find the colour of my voice free for you to voice your voice and place it
soundly in ears
inside and outside
all at the same time
a time of moves it was it is a time of searching sense a time of influences
collectings + connectings = continuings
nightday x seven
a step another
inc-re-ment further
edge along
(careful now)
a perhaps path
a sign ghosting
fingerstip-toe-ing ten-ta-tive
rockface brushing
sidestepping
bending stooping but
DON’T LOOK DOWN
NOW: crouch crawl small crawl blindfolded crawl along a crawl beckoning crawl tunnel crawl narrowingcrawl easing crawl squeeeezing crawl to emerge
where???
stumble tumble make off take off into the realms of
ZZZZZaummmMMmmS-ow-nnn-d-SSS
swarmings and scamperings (just out of mindshot)
journey ON
sinuous serpentining stFreLtcOhiWng
Celt>Angle>Celt
integrate distance with time
>CCCCaerdyddgyrrugyrrudriving>>gyrruBristoldrivinggyrrugyrrudriv>>>
>>>>inglavirianzdrivinggyrruAberfallaviri>>>ANZRRRRRRR>>>
until
in fishshellsandharbour gathering books beached on highwater saltshelves
senses openingopenopened
cast rough nets around
a mist {in a bottle}
tan c/g ent r/i/als: Rachel Lois Clapham and Caroline Wilkins talking about their work at Tertulia, Spike Island, Bristol, 10 april 2012
Here
a Beginning is attempted it’s usually expected an Introduction leading through Middle to …
End almost known as AugustmergingSeptember
but even an End is …
Edward Said said much about Beginning –
a project has beginning/middle/end = transitive
but then he found
< intransitive >
another Beginning one that “cannot truly be known, because it belongs more to silence
than it does to language
because it is what has always been
left behind
and because it challenges continuities that go cheerfully forward with their beginnings obediently affixed”
my transitive beginning is now pullingpushing me towards ending
my intransitive Beginning is further past and future, pulling in ideas encountered in seminars, reading, listening, living, pushing at ideas not formed
there’s no glimmer of Ending
it’s going to be an interesting journey
with a b/Beginning I might recognise some time
if not now
