First Friday at Denver Performance Research

A work in progress of one day out of a long S C U L P T F O R M A N C E series: T H E
R E S I D U E at Denver Performance Research in participation with the First Fridays Art Walk on Tennyson Ave.

The work is inspired by watching loved ones suffer because of their inability to talk about what's really on their mind.
The series is built out of a map that charts the rhythms and patterns of the 7 days of the week and outlines a vocabulary and aesthetic for each day. Contemplate the different qualities and energies you experience on a Monday versus a Saturday.
This map of the week then serves as a container to deconstruct and explore 7 phases we may go through when an enormously life changing event happens to us.

These photos are of a work in progress showing of PHASE I, which is actually paralleled with MONDAY. PHASE I is a little bit like having a silent specter in the far corner watching you patiently, but anxiously. Like sewing without a knot at the end of your thread. Like just getting through the day, even though the air is a little annoying but
invisible.


Excerpts from Phase I voice overs:


I do not remember feeling anything at the time
I was just moving on.



You abandon your critical role,
the will or ability to differentiate.
In your need for amazement,
you count on your intuition and
let go of your analytical spirit.
The price of compulsion is abdication of discernment.


Everything is jumbled.


Amazement is itself a compulsion.
It is an attempt to muzzle anxiety.




If you have a secret, you become afraid.
You are paralyzed by your desires, and are in terror of the desires still to be uncovered.
The demands of love are too great, and you withdraw.


If you have a secret, you become afraid.
You become afraid of yourself,
and what you might want,
of wanting the wrong thing.
Even afraid of love.

last photo seen taken by Jon Vanderweit.