namu nunar for Readymade’s ‘Happy Hour’: “An impression of What Happened on 3rd March”
ReadyMade Works – Nikki Heyward
Full Article: https://readymadeworks.com.au/happy-hour-8-an-impression-of-what-happened-on-3rd-march/?fbclid=IwAR0nfdI36gu6thNPiL8AAduw5gSP_GoAs1liAECSTKya3j1YZn2jJ6t-6xA
“Mirroring Olsen’s slow moving limbs, my own sensation of sinking into grass and dirt is heightened… Her attention calls ours … birds call at high speed…
Over the coming minutes, as she rises, the quickly applied stripes of organic ochre, visibly drying on her bare skin, make playful conversation with the vertical white stripes on her green Adidas trackies.
Her strong delicate arms reach for the sky
tracing a horizontal translation of scudding cloud and temperate air, the shimmering of leaves and flowers of paperbarks
… we are inside a larger circle made by a tall stand of shaggy guardian trees.
They frame us and within that frame Olsen draws our vision from ground to infinite blue above.
[My watching is inevitably framed by a recent viewing of a documentary on the royal visiting Prince Edward and his entourage in 1920 and their sneering reception of Indigenous peoples and flat denial of their claim of sovereign rights… the properness of the 19th Century architecture exudes a trace of prior prejudice]
I note again the external geometry of grid like streets and its contrast with our imperfect curving human circle. Even here in the centre of the city we can savour the softening whisper of tree and plant. We just have to notice…”
namu nunar for Readymade’s ‘Happy Hour’: “Happy Hour: Three Acts in the First and Second Person”
ADSR Zine 002 – Cleo Mees
Full Article: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/884980_edacf473deff44ae803d66ac1af294a7.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1ak9fVnSkl1As8o8H1gA7gZ9o7Wm0Y4oY3YDhEgThY8C7qRtgyUQUgNy0#page=20
“You, lying back in the grass, look as if you were being drawn downriver, cradled as you are in ruffled green, a breeze in the blades, your head tilted just so. It is as if time were moving faster against you, faster alongside you, until you shift into gear (hinges at the ankles and the armpits).”
“A space opens in the back of your neck. You are drawn into verticality. Wet hair does a long tangle down, you are all height (even seated) and the planes of your face are upturned, drawn up to meet the above-you (a blue laid over with thin cloud that some people call high cirrus). A woman looks on quietly from her porch over the street.”
“Later, you will expand on the translation of the title, talk about the Bunya mountains (the feminine, the nut), about repatriation and the (re)learnings involved in the making of this work, about slowness; and as we stand in the kitchenette I will recall, in flashes, the curvature of your arms, the slopes in your torso (now opening out, now closing in), and how time streamed alongside you.”
Mouvement Issue #101
COSMIC DANCERS – Léa Poiré & Marie Pons
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Interview with Léa Poiré about Katina’s research on cosmology and choreography.