The Unspeakable Rooms: A Prescript of Performance Possibilities

use text as springboard from which to leap
lead observers into abstract spaces, mute
  spaces of potential narrative
lead observers into unspeakable rooms
allow observers to explore, without feeling
  coerced into particular interpretations
avoid letting observers place themselves in
  judgment on the meanings of the text
perform the textures of meaning
don’t attempt to make the performance into
  something believable
explore the flexibilities of words
discourage assumptions about the ways
  words mean
undermine patterns in words
break down the representations words imply
be abstract with the focus of presence
challenge the text
ask observers to suspend their need to
  understand the reasons for actions
create artificial restrictions
contain performance in a cubic space, a 3D
  picture constrained in a frame
use images that are visceral and aggressive
physicalize conceptual space
video a performance of The Unspeakable
  Rooms and project it as a counterpoint
  into the live event; project the video
  performer on to the live performer
synchronize some sections of the recorded
  performance with the live event; make
  other sections non-synchronous
scream while the projected performer speaks
  the text softly
make the form of the piece become a
  discussion of the text’s possibilities
use as many performers as your ideas demand
explore the contradictions of the text
reinforce similarities in the text
layer gentle moanings on the soundtrack
speak quietly in a silence
use sounds of suckling puppies, whimpers
  and slurps giving a sense of
  coveredness, closeness and warmth
use sounds of soldiers fucking with sounds of
  army barracks in background
continually change the piece, throw ideas out
  and include new ideas
shout at someone who responds tenderly
poison the oceanic subconscious
use emotion as a texture rather than as
  instrumental within a narrative
use symbolic images
use the sea as a metaphor for the mind
know and hold in your mind all the rooms
  if things seem speakable, comprehensible,
containable: destroy connectedness
give birth to the words
shit out words, push to get them out
pull back the text to expose performance
  dare to leap, have that faith; make
  threshold an invitation not a barrier
don’t ask observers to make any leap; carry
  them over the barrier; do not ask
  them to risk; do not ask them to leap
entice division between mundane possibility
  and the wild risks of the impossible
place things within safe, acceptable context
make something understandable, obvious
make meaning without ambiguity
take phrases like “pernicious humanism” and
  play with all sorts of ideas, such as
  rationalism; separation of mind, body
  and spirit; the Enlightenment; the
  irrational; religion
don’t feel that you understand the concepts
  you want to use deeply enough yet
  and deliver the concepts NOW with
  conviction
structure piece with changes, contradictions,
  intensities, rhythms, sounds
frustrate people who don’t enjoy language
find it difficult to speak
divide edge of table rhythmically with hand
curl your toes
do not know what your unspeakable side
  might do; fear it and welcome it
repeat words in different vocalizations
take performance into abstraction
seem to mean something unambiguous
mean something unambiguous
give us the basics
perform in unspeakable rooms
create an event that requires the cerebral text to
  mix with a visceral performance
unread the piece; unexpress the text; unspeak
  the rooms
nourish mysterious areas we cannot know;
  attempt to place them in awareness
nourish what we can control
nourish what we are aware of
rehearse in unspeakable rooms
know what your unspeakable side might do
hold yourself up to ridicule
don’t mean what is in the words; mean the
  words themselves
accept things you don’t understand
clutter the text with performance
orate
become a breathing heap of bodies
find a fecund female energy
do be quite practical on some of this
preach like Billy Graham
express effortfully
expose physical frustration
restrict yourself
force and vocalize physical exhalation

MUTATE AS THE TEXT REQUIRES