Bow A4: Research, narrative is repressed

This column has some complex problems but the overwhelming message is about narratives re. the current ‘dystopia’ existing beneath/behind the status quo, and about ‘power’ maintaining the illusion all is fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/08/world-class-vapidity-my-night-inside-the-bafta-bubble-carole-cadwalladr

All is most certainly not fine. And my own work does not go remotely far enough to explore / express this. At the moment, it feels like bumps of growth beneath the surface that have yet to break through. I have work to do/make and will try to keep this energy focused on that rather than say more here. (i.e. Show, don’t tell) but the article posted here certainly encapsulates something pertinent – although anyone mistakenly thinking it’s just about the film industry rather than a more widely applicable general blindness (refusal to see) amongst white middle-class people is mistaken.

Bow A4: Beckett’s Not I

‘Samuel Beckett left strict instructions for his ‘one-mouth’ play. Don’t act. And you can never go fast enough. Easier said than done, writes actor Lisa Dwan’ — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/may/08/beckett-not-i-lisa-dwan

Lisa Dwan- https://youtu.be/e4qaRp4t4jg

Billie Whitelaw – https://youtu.be/VFQH7hhDTSE