Ever sat through a play and wondered
what was the inspiration behind it or
sat through a play and thought if only I
understood what was going on I might
be enjoying this more? I asked our
SummerWorks Artists to give us a clue,
a piece of the puzzle - a list of their
inspirations, quotes or questions to
induce contemplation or clarity…
SO CHEW THIS
All of Him
How do you measure someone's worth?
Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair
Love after Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
When, with elation
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror
And each will smile at the others welcome.
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger, who has loved you.
All your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Bliss
"
The alienation of the spectator which reinforces the contemplated objects (a result of his own unconscious activity) works like this: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject appears in the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone who represents them to him. The spectator does not feel at home anywhere because the spectacle is everywhere."
- Guy Debord (The Society of Spectacle)
Biographies of the Dead and Dying
Who is the Ghost?
Countries shaped like stars
I will dedicate this book to the little boy
from whom this grown-up grew.
All grown-ups were children once -
although few of them remember it.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery to Leon Worth (when he was a little boy)
Faust Ich Mochte
How does one define themselves?
In the words of Emily Dickinson, "I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?"
A man finds his identity by identifying.
But how can you identify what you don't know?
The Emotionalists
"The question isn't who is going to let; it's who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Even Darkness is Made of Light
It is by going into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
The Hanging of Francoise Laurent
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
Executed in California's gas chamber.
- Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21, 1992
Homegrown
Justice is incidental to law and order."
- J. Edgar Hoover
I was Barbie
“What strikes me is the fact that, in our society, art has become
something that is related only to objects and not to individuals or to
life. That art is something which is specialized or done by experts
who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?
Why should… the lamp or the house be an art object…, but not our
life?"
- Michel Foucault, “On the Genealogy of Ethics”
The Kreutzer Sonata
The amazing thing to me about this piece is that it foreshadows, in one of the earliest instances I am aware of, the beginning of the arduous, long and heroic journey women have had and are still having when it comes to choosing the right to do with their bodies as they choose with regard to procreation
Loving the stranger or how to recognize an invert
Book - The Pink Triangle: the Nazi war against homosexuals by Richard Plant
Film - Paragraph 175 directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and narrated by Rupert Everett.
Quote - "Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil." - Elie Wiesel
Miss Caledonia
Somewhere over the rainbow…
Or,
"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal
should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Post-Eden
Post Eden can be regarded as a multi-media portrait of a family fractured by the death of their family dog. Artists whose work have informed the aesthetics of the piece include: filmmaker Terrance Davies, video artist Pierre Huyghe, and photographer Gregory Crewdson.
The Sad and Cautionary Tale of SmackHeaded Peter
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- P.J. O'Rourke
Say Ginger Ale
There’s more to a country than its weather
The Small Ones
I am fascinated by things that outlive us: our genes, memories of us, the art we make, our photographs, our journals, our schoolwork, our cosmetics, the matched and the unmatched socks, knickknacks from trips we’ve taken, the random things that we’re saving ‘just in case’. These are the remnants of our lives, the residue marking our time.
Theory
How can you remain progressive when progress becomes dangerous?
Warning: Txtual Content;
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
Wonderland
A poem by Antonin Artaud
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
If I say it
as I know how to say it
immediately
you will see my present body
fly into pieces
and under ten thousand
notorious aspects
a new body
will be assembled
in which you will never again
be able
to forget me.
Word! Sound! Powah!
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