2025
‘Audience, Performer, and Score Meet at an Execution: Walking a Tightrope of Superfluously Specific Nothings as Well as Somethings Inside the Golden Ratio of 420 Mississippi’s.’
Cantos #7, Collingwood House (2025)
Curated by Isabella Hone Saunders
Curated by Isabella Hone Saunders
A prompt from David Wojnarowicz’s Weight of the Earth inspired a fascist work of totalitarian control that could have been written by Mussolini as a small, unhinged child.
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Audience, Performer, and Score Meet at an Execution: Walking a Tightrope of Superfluously Specific Nothings as Well as Somethings Inside the Golden Ratio of 420 Mississippi’s unfolds domestically in the kitchen at Collingwood House. Thomas, Joanna, Phillip and Daniel perform, excruciatingly, the characters of Tom, Joanna, Phillip and Daniel--all very normal people doing normal things in a normal way. Behind this facade sits a fascist little score of fucked up secular god-play: an immature work of totalitarian control that could have been written by Mussolini as a small, unhinged child. A work that impossibly dictates every almost‑nothing with violent articulation: Every scratch, thought, sip, pause and sideways look timed with mississippi’s and scored.
Rehearsal one built a cooked tightrope of superfluously specific somethings and nothings, and rehearsal two fucked all that up. New notes arrive on day two to sabotage what’s been learnt: actions are cut or altered, but performers remember this only once already mid‑sip, mid‑turn, mid‑line. A Jenga tower of forced normalcy is stacked. Lets gooo!
Performed by:
Joanna Lloyd as JOANNA
Daniel Ward as DANIEL
Phillip Adams as PHILLIP
Thomas Woodman as TOM
Video Credit: Jordan James Kaye.
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