[NetBehaviour] Lost, on top of being lost— how fucking lost is that

[Simon Mclennan]

Thanks Alan! 
Well I do tend to get lost on top of being lost etc.. ha ha and lose the compass.

I was interested in the visceral and obsessive nature of my drawing work from 90 through to around 96, when I
was chalking the beetle motifs on pavements with Heath and then Ray Baskerville a butoh performer, for a while, then it led to the little super 8 film.. after moving
onto paper with charcoal.
After a while I felt a bit better.
mental health seemed a factor - albeit disguised as “art” ha ha
each motif was given a name for a made-up mental disorder, a bit like the doctors do every year. They
have a junket and make new ones up - to sell the pharma products I think. Names were like Sad Hat Dentia and Cornea Jettison Syndrome.
So each drawing was a new in-that-moment-of-being diagram or sigil or signpost, with a new name, for the catalogue of human disorders.
It was real, but was presented as a parody or satire.

I might get back to that animation thing again I guess… after your show of interest Alan!

Do we have some parrallels in our work do you think? Marc thought so for Prometheus. Good on you Marc! 

Cheers,

Simon




On 8 Sep 2020, at 19:22, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Really like all of this greatly! I'm surprised - are you still working in this direction? They're wonderful, they transcend their medium!
> 
> Thank you! - Alan
> 
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what I’ve seen and those
> dancers I have worked with.
> 
> Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago. We attended. He moved at many different speeds. 
> 
> Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and attending workshops in London and Brighton
> and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz.
> 
> The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and powerful sense, while becoming aware of how
> I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space! In a small way I began to feel myself in
> the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice.
> 
> I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai expressionist movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly.
> 
> Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA
> 
> Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE
> 
> The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film. They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative,
> filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed.
> The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice recordings, written to accompany the completed
> visual material of that film.
> 
> Thanks Alan for the interest!
> 
> Simon
> 
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> On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> 
>> quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have seen. 
>> have you done more work like this? Best, Alan
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY
>> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015.
>> 
>> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction.
>> Featuring 
>> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume.
>> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts.
>> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing.
>> 
>> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex.
>> 
>> From a single long improvisation.
>> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
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