CISA–Plan ‘Life Flash’

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I collected 100 different voices on reading poems on their version of redemption. They are from different classes and ages and religions. There are 26 languages overall. I cleaned them and chopped them into slices, arranged them from high pitches to low pitch.

This is the original version of it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4v6wrk14h1mo8ct/poem.mp3?dl=0

Overall keywords:

  • Layers of voices
  • Consciousness
  • Redemption
  • Acceptance
  • Obsession
  • Value
  • Death is normal
  • Monologue
  • Memories
  • Burn your life and go home

Props:

  • Mirror
  • Painting
  • Paper notes

Duration: 45 minutes

Location:

– Lucky Pot (grass) (22.4.2023)

– Crypt Gallery (tunnel?)

– Ugly Duck

Costume:

– Cream white and red

Poster:

– Abstract and red

Sound:

4 speakers with one that has clear voice of people reading poems

Structure:

– 4 sections which are approximately 10 minutes

– Transition and ending

High section:

Keywords: childhood, happy, pure, sincere, scary

Interaction: Slowly building relationship but can’t see each other first

Ayisha: Slowly generating words (my father moved through dooms of love)

Virgi: Keeping body low, crawling with movement resembling generating words and emotion

Prop:

High-Mid section:

Keywords: intense love, intimacy, obsession, death and love

Interaction: quick separation and reunion

Ayisha and Virgi: separate and come together, we can kind of put Virgi in the centre

Prop:

Mid-mid section:

Keywords: Confinement, restricted movement, mid-life, skip, James Fenton’s The Skip (life is ok, so let it be)

Interaction: Both are unable to move much

Ayisha: Legs in the dress, trying to reach out to something but it bounces further away, pain

Virgi: on the ground, distorted movement

Prop:

Low section:

Keywords: End, high and low, burning, final intensity

Interaction: Spinning and intense reading, audience and poem print

Ayisha: Reading in the middle (monologue?)

Virgi: Spin by herself, spin around Ayisha and spin with the audience

Prop:

I feel like this is the story/performance of a candle hahaha

For the 13th session, we planned to compressed the first two acts into 10 minutes, and then act 3 (10 minutes) and act 4(10 minutes)

For Saturday:

  • Crypt Gallery
  • We are meeting at 5.30 pm (Ayisha and Virgi want to do a little make up on their own for fun haha)
  • 7 pm starts
  • 30 minutes
  • We decided to compress 1st and 2nd section into first 10 minutes.
  • We want to put the fire alarm after the 1st section so that they could start performing the 2nd section.
  • 3rd section would be the same 10 minutes.
  • We would be playing with the wall as the ground could hurt.
  • The clock turning on the ground would be changed to clock turning on the wall.
  • 4th section starts with the Monologue.
    After the monologue, Virgi would take down poem prints on the wall to be read by Ayisha.
  • Ending composition: