...a long veil which covers the female body but also connects us across a long room...
An uncovered female body, pale in the darkness of the room, beckons and entices. The passing of a yoke, both erotic and an exchange of power, becomes a symbol not just of marriage but more sensual unions.
We stand together, reflected in the mirror, as a couple.
I am given a chain which is both jewelry and a symbol of enslavement. I am adrift in a featureless room, floating through a sexual transaction.
The erotic is not the pornographic as the pornographic is sexuality
define by politics...
...politics being power relationships...
An immersive silence, as if these actions are too weighty for more words...
Play only possible when the political is excluded. Discuss.
Wait.
Revelation.
Body as commodity.
Innocence compelled.
Innocence and naivety discarded.
I am still thinking.
We are both yoked.
Yoked together by external forces.
Beyond our power.
Ritual is erotic, or at least...
physical, embodied.
Theatre and Culture from Scotland, starring The List's Theatre Editor, his performance persona and occasional guest stars. Experimental writings, cod-academic critiques and all his opinions, stolen or original.
Friday, 14 November 2014
Notes on Dowry @ The Arches
Labels:
Arches Live 2014
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dowry
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Live Art
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stephanie black
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The Arches
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