daghdha space 21112009 curated by michael klien dance by mark carberry, angie smalis, ellen kilsgaard, lucy suggate music by various

a subtractive exercise . square brackets . empty set . nothing . bleeps in space as we plunge through the endless night of outer outer space . but its warm, not cold . sideways slipshifting between parallel universes of time and …. place space is the place i’ve heard it sungsaid . clockwork whirrr of the engine i think of petals : a steel flower opening and closing a hungry steel mouth . i think of warren ellis informational drive

There’s a theory that the universe’s underpinning is information, not matter and energy. Matter and energy move in volume, but the informational capacity of the universe has been found to rely on surface area. That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms. Everything in volume is an expression of a two-dimensional plane of information. What this vessel does is employ what you might call a scoop, that digs into the informational plane and rewrites local conditions to produce thrust. What you’re seeing in the ejecta, young man, is the new code being jettisoned and the plane restoring itself.
warren ellis & john cassady, planetary #19 – mystery in space, wildstorm comics

and a crash landing on planet fiction

…the initial project profile. To create a fictional world, and then to land on it. A sample return mission.
To bring back someone from a fictional reality.
warren ellis & john cassady, planetary #9 – planet fiction, wildstorm comics

this is a very modern moment . cool and sophisticated and supportive of a very chilled out knowing awareness of self place space other and the soft geometries of body|s in motion . move meant i mean . meant . dancing while the alarm bells ring and the worldview burns . dancing all we’ve built into conflagration . climbing onto a magic carpet space floor dance ship and driving it with our own freedom up and up and up . dance is an anti-gravity machine sent back from the beginning end of time to show us the edges of things . the shadow thrown by reality onto the backdrop of what…? whatwhowhat . howhat . itwhatthatthat . ifnotthatwhat . : the nothing fields at the end of time, where dreams grow propagate themselves and dance the beautiful slow death that is life

kickin the space out to make room to move . cut a rug . bug a bug . shrug . do the frug

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but wanting to see the head and the heart connect . wanting to feel a total body sense organ at work at play . gives me pleasure to see that jaw loosen up . the neck go floppy and the line of propulsion carry through from crown to pelvis in loose easy floppy contraction expansion . showing the world how beautiful you are . easy . beautiful . yes we are . you are a mirror . giving it all back to me . my self . my sense . my freedom . my capacity . my resistance . my hope . with a positive expectation of joy gentlegentling our conversation . gently held up . i’ve got your back . i’m behind you . i love you . i believe in you . i believe in me i believe in me . i believe in us all

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i see the influence now of the lovespotters garvey initiative special people dance technique style philosophy bleeding through now into the daghdha style . a way of relating to self to body to the energy|space|line between body in dance and body|s watching at rest…

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the air become liquid . dancer turned totem pole . i can see vibrations rippling the medium between heshe them and me . it affects me, their movement . wavefronts of possibility ripple out from the dancing body and collapse inside my perceptual apparatus . my body becomes whole, sensing, a whole surface, skintinglistening attention . i remember that it is possible to be this way . it is possible to be alive . this death thing:… it’s just a thing . it doesn’t have to be me

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courage, conviction . of our own bodies . our own beauty . that we may have music wherever we go . power welling up from inside our being . our human being . we are humans being

to hear your breath . your voice . gives me great pleasure . you thinking i can makes me think i can . i am . thank you

thoroughly honest . real . nourishing . unpretentious . turn the lights up and bounce the beams of this impossible impeccable affair . burn it up use it up at the end spent flat out and flailing and flat out and flying and flat out and lying down . love is a forest and your limbs are the trees . our limbs . give it all give it all away and then dig deep and find more there’s always more there’s always a little bit more if you’re prepared to give it away

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