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explaining my circumstance

explaining my circumstance

. . .the King Abdullah Financial District, where the above is shot, with the collection of signature architectures, and before that the neighbourhood where I am at present, and before that Doha, the rain forest, and if you look there appears to be a bright-winged bird. . . then we did a tour of

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

as I wrote in Minus Theatre workshop 8 this is to be a short report. Schematic even. Drawn from notes I have brought with me to Riyadh. * movement for primitive organisms, cilia and flagella, rolling, swimming— —is perception: single-celled organisms move in the outside world with the same parts as

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

* dialogue progresses the action. At least in conventional theatre it does; and I am starting with dialogue because dialogue usually covers speaking, where there is more than one of them, roles in theatre. * there are two types of action: conscious and unconscious. It would be a mistake to consider the

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Ricky, Nick, Chen, Chenby, Mike, Alex, Rachel, through Ricky's recommendation, Ann, Kwan and Yuka from about 4.30: I talked too much but explained the notion of gesture, its double constraint, the one I impose by asking you to put the actor's gesture who leads the

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

Finding myself writing about character in the journal I'm keeping on Minus Theatre workshops, it is in respect of character, of the curve of character, that this short note is the asymptote. I read Jess Walter's novel So Far Gone, 2025, and requested the other three

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

The following was written when I was without power and what goes by the term connectivity—without power I had no easy access to water but could at least heat what I carried in pots from the smaller of our two tanks that collect rainwater from the roof—because a

Minus workshop 6, part 2: the power of being affected

Minus workshop 6, part 2: the power of being affected

is the power of affect more than that of affecting and being an agent of affect causing it. This I was thinking on my way to the workshop at Ellen Melville Centre. The thought grew from the perspective of David Lapoujade, in his small book Powers of Time, 2018 translated