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He dreamed. I was assigned to be an intern with Gurawski, a young stage designer with Grotowski. The Theatre of 13 Rows company was in transition moving from Opole to Wrocław and about to be relabeled "Teatr Laboratorium". This I knew but still relished this opportunity to be in the old Opole workspace. As field work Gurawski had taken me to an old castle outside of Cracow leaving me stranded on the roof stripping away plaster to reveal rotten beams. Rain had caused significant damage and it was my job to expose all the potential structural damage. It was dangerous work. Often found myself in precarious positions barely hanging on. The building was deep in a forest and at one point I thought this was some kind of prototype for Brezinka. Returning to Opole I set about sanding the raked stage for an early production which I identified would later become Apocalysis Cum Figuris. Discussing the show with Gurawski he took me through a visualization of the actors. A scene of the ac...

"Inspection and interviews. Close personal observation and talking with long term residents. It's a hard thing, really, to erase a trail. A lot of information can be recovered if you stay at it." "Of course, but nobody has the time for this kind of field-work anymore. That's unfortunate, because this information is what we need, you know. This shows history and how people fit the places they occupy It's about what gets erased and what comes to replace it. These maps reveal the foundations beneath the ephemera." ( from The Mappists in Light Action in the Caribbean by Barry Lopez ) - See: 3Life :: note :: ... maps & time ...

sent the question: Imagination is .... out to the twitterverse received this answer: imagination is ... copy left not right! ;-) - See: 3Life :: note :: ... openness is the beginning ...

"These two concepts, practice and play, taken at their most serious and most spiritual, was what Grotowski gave his life to. " "Grotowski's effects on theatre flow from three ideas that he identified, explored, and attempted to systematize. First, that powerful acting occurs at a meeting place between the personal and the archetypal-in this he continued and deepened the work of Stanislavsky. Second, that the most effective theatre is the "poor theatre" - one with a minimum of accoutrements beyond the presence of the actors. Third, that theatre is intercultural, differentiating and relating performance "truths" in and from many cultures. He explored these ideas over a lifetime of scrupulous work with people, work that was precise, detailed, systematic, physical; a set of practices more than a colloquium of ideas or beliefs. His writings can appear inspirational or opaque. But working with him was another matter altogether. " ( TDR/ Drama Revie...

"We all lead three lives, an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of." ( - Thomas Berhard. On the Mountain. p 8 ) My question is how do all these lives entwine and practices which encourage awareness of these lives. Tagged 3life - See: 3Life :: note :: ... responding to Chris : "I'm going to be thinking and reflecting over the next 30 days on this question and I invite you to choose a question and engage in a research project as well." ...

"The other departure from contemporary English is my use of 'irreal' and 'irreality', which are not English words at all. They are my rendering of the French adjective and noun 'irréel' usually translated as 'unreal' and 'unreality'. but these would be misleading here. Sartre's use of 'irréel' here seems to follow one sense of Husserl's 'irreal' . Since Husserl's term is usually rendered into English as 'irreal', my rendering of Sartre's term preserves the connection. Further, Sartre's 'irréel' does not denote, as 'unreal' seems to, the class of objects that could exist but do not. Rather, an irreal object in this work is an object as imagined by consciousness. This object may be real: the irreal Pierre may be the real Pierre as imaged. Conversely, unreal objects that are never imaged will never be irreal. Finally, Sartre employs the verb 'to irrealize', even opening the wo...

North American theater related blogs questioned the value of theater on March 19. The Peter Brook quote which inspired this blogs title holds an answer. "In everyday life, 'if' is a fiction, in the theater 'if' is an experiment. In everyday life, 'if' is an evasion, in the theater 'if' is the truth." ( The Empty Space ) If is the central core of LifE. Experiences creating/witnessing/participating in theater can be healing. Flow , action in rhythm, vibration in space heals the fragmentation of time into a on-going presence of awakened sensibility. Theater plays (pdf link) with space & time educating the imagination to observe equally the predictable and unpredictable universe. Theater is a communion opening us to the mystery which is at the heart of life. To finish the Brook quote which concludes his book: "When we are persuaded to believe in this truth, then the theater and life are one. This is a high aim. It sounds like ...

( via LookSee ) - See: Image Artist :: note :: ... this is a work that might fit into SL ... able to fly around & even into ...

"i found http://www.pseudodictionary.com/OBE - sourced from here - http://tinyurl.com/2chbfm - scroll down to the Dec 13th post on that page " ( twitter ) - See: Social Networks :: note :: ... am a late bloomer ... quick to add & use apps/tools ... mainly lurk slow to network ... was hesitant to ask twitter to find some info on a "geek/tech" word while reading a post but took the plunge ... it was one of the first "friends" who replied with a direct message thus hidden ... the flashy multi posters ignored the request ... there certainly types of friends ... so thanks web friend ...

"1. An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition." ( Essay: Arts and Cognition: Findings Hint at Relationships The 2008 Progress Report on Brain Research | via ) & "Thirty-five thousand MFAs a semester, 90 percent of whom never make another work of art." ( The Art Critic: David Hickey | via ) - See: Education Arts :: note :: ... the paradox in these statements reveals the truth about ? ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... Drollic Dream ... a flickr toy ...

"We can interact. We can be performative. We can create. Our meanings are full ... 'of sound and fury' or full of hot air. We can breathe life into our meanings. Meanings inspire; eventually they expire. We can exchange meanings. We can engage in the Dialogue and the circulation of meanings: floating meanings; bouncing to and from the audience; bouncing from and to the screen." ( Double Dialogues: Issue Seven, Winter 2007 On Space : (falling into) the space between the screen and the audience | Stephen Goddard ) - See: Theater Journal :: note :: ... tentatively enter a conversation on distance in the theater: the aesthetics of audience response ...

"... There's this attitude out there that only native actors can play native roles. But acting - the verb "to act" - means to pretend to be who you are not, so I don't believe in that idea that you have to be a native to play one. Look at [playwright] Morris Panych - and I don't want to say a word against him, because I adore the man - but what if someone were to come up to him and say, "You're only allowed to work with Polish actors?" He wouldn't have much of a career. If someone were to go up to Atom Egoyan and say, "You can work only with Armenian actors," his career would die tomorrow. There's a very real danger of that happening with native writers. And the older I get, the less interested I become in immersing myself in that problem." ( Journey man The nomadic Tomson Highway talks about writing the first Cree opera By Martin Morrow, CBCNews.ca ) - See: Artists - See: Theater :: note :: ... certainly not a ne...

- See: Image Gallery Artists :: note :: ... entered the Ten Cubed Gallery to visit the works of Chris Ashley ... although love the idea of Second Life the virtual gallery fails to create or enrich ... launched by the real world gallery Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists the traditional web pages give all of the works more vibrancy ... second life feels very secondary ... granted there is the walking a gallery & a spatial effect ... perhaps i need more practice and better equipment ... still second life with the ability to fly and teleport demands fresh new ways of viewing ... would love to fly around works ...

I have nothing left to imagine On the place of dreams Or the action of the spheres Of the breathturns. If I once directed a scene of trials The jury is hung. The judgement suspended. - See: Poetry :: note :: ... nothing left to say ...

"At a school with a locked-away ivorytower board of governors, one can feel hopeless to try to engage real change, Darwish of the Sierra Club told the group. "In my year it was cool to be an activist. It was cool to fuck shit up, but campuses are getting more corporate."" ( The Sheaf | Vol.99 Issue 22/ Jan. 24 2008 | pdf file ) "The Prairies Sustainable Campuses Conference will bring together campus community members from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to build a regional network as part of the national movement to institutionalize social and environmental sustainability on campus." ( Prairie Sustainable Campus Conference ) Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Mike Hudema Liela Darwish Rosa Kouri - See: Politics Environment Activism :: note :: ... a rich example of students working on important issues ... wishing to document this ...

"Arts and Letters Daily is an example of the pure ``communo-genic'' function. It creates a lens for the cultured, conservative Anglo Saxon, entirely by selecting from other web sites 3 noteworthy articles per day. We notice it at openDemocracy--when it lists one of our pieces we see the traffic spike. Arts and Letters Daily creates its cultural commentary through careful aggregation--it builds it with the smaller lego pieces available elsewhere. The traffic spike that we see from it suggests that Arts and Letters Daily has real credibility amongst its readers: they trust it to take them places worthy of attention. It is a sort of Michelin guide for that tribe. When I click through an A&L Daily article, I arrive at it with all sorts of preconceptions: I arrive at the article not with a mind as a blank slate, but ready to resume my conversation with the cultured right. A&L has framed my reading just as a newspaper's commentary pages does." ( openDemocracy | ...

Lost her. At night he wept. (true story) 6 Word Stories Facebook group - See: Story Facebook :: note :: ... through the myriad of web connections found myself writing a 6 word story ... ivoryfishbone led me there ... the web is what you make it ...

index.html via kwout - See: Images :: note :: ... though a useful link the image evoked a recent work ...

- See: Technology :: note :: ... this was the last page of a blog which ceased to be serviced years ago ... wayback machine preserves the past ... am thankful & will take the past into a living place ... for how long? ... remembering on this screen is like borrowed word ( McCarthy ) borrowed time with borrowed eyes in a borrowed world ...