Mette Ingvartsen: Manual Focus (2003) / a 4.5 workshop response to performance documentation on vimeo. 27.10.2017, PACT Zollverein, Essen.
Bodies, bodies, heads,
the limbs
shimmering,
bursting and splitting,
exaggerated weight leaking like a smoothie,
or a human centipede
glinting like a jewel at the bottom of dark waters.
I constantly search for the hormonal differences that create a body,
collecting a body for a creature
Who Must Not Be Named.
Trying to clear my
stage.
Can we think in categories like
janusheaded distance
with scrupulous timing
like our imagined past?
Rejecting it,
rejecting this,
I can’t wait to
becoming nothing.
