Sculptformance in the alley

This past Friday, June 3rd, Denver Performance Research held it's 3rd First Friday event, a work in progress showing of one part in a 7-part Sculptformance Series, The Residue.

Some of this is articulated in previous writing, but to reiterate: The work is inspired by watching loved ones suffer because of their inability to talk about an enormously life changing event. 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. The map of the week then serves as a container to deconstruct and explore 7 phases we may go through when coping with something very difficult to talk about.

This Friday we presented PHASE II, which is paralleled with the energetic qualities of a TUESDAY.
The following photos are from that evenings performance. The text exerts are taken from the script which was heard as a voice over with a home produced sound scape.

The resistance itself is unconsciousness
My inability to progress puts me
in a stage of rage.

When you are angry you become not sinful but ugly.
Look in the mirror.

Pain is like a stone. It is indestructible.
It comes from the rage of not knowing how to understand.
Of not knowing how to learn.





Violence.