“I sit here before my computer, Amiguita, my altar on top of the monitor with the Virgen de Coatlalopeuh candle and copal incense burning. My companion, a wooden serpent staff with feathers, is to my right while I ponder the ways metaphor and symbol concretize the spirit and etherealize the body. The Writing is my whole life, it is my obsession. This vampire which is my talent does not suffer other suitors. Daily I court it, offer my neck to its teeth. This is the sacrifice that the act of creation requires, a blood sacrifice. For only through the body, through the pulling of flesh, can the human soul be transformed. And for images, words, stories to have this transformative power, they must arise from the human body--flesh and bone--and from the Earth's body--stone, sky, liquid, soil. This work, these images, piercing tongue or ear lobes with cactus needle, are my offerings, are my Aztecan blood sacrifices.” ― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Monday, November 18, 2013

Theoretheatrix--ology

Theoretheatrix--ology:
a performance that aims for re-cognition of condition (dis-ease), and thereby for a trance-formation of subjectivity.

Setting (The Social Space-Field):
A building in process of construction. Scaffolds and platforms. 

 Characters (Players and their Practice):
Agents from the Fractal bureau of Instigation. 

 Plot (Deployment Scheme Gameplay):
A group of agents infiltrate a construction site and plaster posters and racial slurs all over the concrete, afterwards, they cover their work with paint that blends, and thereby camouflages, their operation(s) into the construction site. (sequel: We see the future inhabitants of that building inhabit the very words that were plastered long ago by the FBI).

Theme (Infiltration):
Structures that become internalized, inconspicuously, on the body.
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