Marking the limit of language. The borders of our embodied experience in performance and in nature. In ‘OUR’ time. Which is shared, communal, fragile. Do you permit my presence? Do I permit yours? Where do we meet? How do I see you? How do I mark this meeting down onto paper? into words? How do I write you down?
Red bricks arms stretching
out forward
rocking
wheeeezing
hanger like arms
hair
curled/curling on neck
dragging breathing wings/
dragging like a tin whistle.
Gurglingbreath
hallow chest – shussh draaag
gurgle saliva
spine length + depth of body
draaawback
claw hands
finger/s
over-hang
(of) brick wall
hole-cavity
(I’ve emptied myself)
draaag
sea-scape-sea-sounds-like-ssssssss
breasts,
stomach; three mounds.
Calve- half moon.
bricks
sound like bones
different tones – individual symphony
sea-wind- to
shuuush…
calming bricks down
lining up. Thud.
Sound reverberate
hair. Stance cave – human(?)
or,
woman
-esque
fee fi fo fommm
musical rocks
ca ca calling
through
scratching the
spine
3vertical 6horizontal 3vertical line/ddd
of,
brick(s)
huddled over…. +
hissing into
snake like
whizzzz over
gestating in
summoningsum-motion(ing)
(activate passive)
hiss-in-to-the-
linesssSeparating
cavities of bricks
(molar edifices)
body forward crotch out facing front(all) ways *
tongue
piercing under
two front lip-tip
tongue flickering
shuttering
sounds of breath
weT
stuttering
sounds of mouth
weT
words unspoken
tongue whip
LASH(ed)
Ciara McKeon, ‘Going Without’ SPILL Festival of Performance 2014, part of the SPILL National Platform, produced by Pacitti Company. Video by Chameleoneye Films.
game of bricks …
(two pushed forward)
one dropped
shusssh-rise rocking body
one selected Aaa-
eyes fluttering up carried into hands
steeple fall(s)
(down)
dragging under
bum leaning
forward
hands +…
arms slouched
forward. Crumbling.
flesh creasing
wrinkles
cold paws.
Fast mooove…
Fall forward
lie over breaks (sic)
breasts pinched
forward
tipping the nipples over.
Elbow angle (triangle)
(…)
then
where do I look?
face for expression?
legs jilting body?
squashed flesh?
…balancing over.
(un)touching ground.
(“floatingdefyinggravity”- R.P)
brick missing in
beneath her!
vaginal front
lips breathing
shussssh…
Breathe through
hallow breath
Sound waves-
echo
lightly-
by the shape of the hole into the brick
the line and hole in the nape of her neck
the nape of her back
the low line that draws the nape of her crack
the nape of her neck
the nape of her back
the low line that draws the nape of her crack
the nape of her crack
the low line that draws
the nape of her crack
the nape of her
the nape of
the nape
(left uncovered)
Withdraw +
fall back on to
toes
Reversing backwards
reinserting. Brick.
Calling with hips and
saliva waning its
absence.*
leaning forward,
hissing continuous…
toes – clay
like limbs
over brick.
Feed high
(perspective).
Gait/bait
interrogation space
water pipes
coloured yellow
drips
on stonework.
White square, upper left, red.
Bricks on right
her!
red bricks in centre
sound play.
Empty space
sound following
pipe dridripips…
with sewer hole nearby.
Bye by radiator
concrete spaces.
Now absent figure.
Absent space.
Architecture brute…
stonework palate….
lime-yellow-wet thrust!
lick that brick.
Water that licked that brick.
Water that dripped and wet,
and water down-down
russshing into silence
russshing into breath
russshing into an=bsence
coming on nothing
smell! (s)
meaningless
the
empty space
after she! has gone.
the
existential cry-sees
hysteria
hysterectomy
pregnant void.
Value in
Life.
Breath….
Having (A!) breath….
Being!
THERE!
PRESSSENT!
gone
hushed away.
*[insert drawing of body shaped as an unspoken letter SSSS]
Debbie Guinnane is an Irish visual artist who is currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She was recently awarded a full research studentship to pursue a PhD in performance art practices at Northumbria University, which commenced in October 2014. Recent performances include participating in Bbeyond’s Holding Time performance at Newtownards, Belfast November 2014, and GastroPODa at SPILL Festival of Performance as part of their 2014 National Platform October 2014. For more information please contact her at debbieguinnane@gmail.com.