THE DYNAMIC ABSENT OF INCALCULABLE CHOREOGRAPHIES AN OPEN DIALOGUE CURATED BY KARA L. ROONEY
Well, I can tell you about that but it would take some time. Ritual.
It was like Fluxus meets Broadway in a whorehouse, and that’s very accurate.
It’s not a prescriptive ritual; it’s a sense of intensive improvisational events, structures. An erotic rite; an excessive, indulgent celebration of flesh as raw material. Often the word “ritual” conjures up this idea of serious ceremony, and that makes me uncomfortable. We’ve taken ritual and turned it on its head in a profound sense. Instead of separating two people away from the crowd in order to normalize them, we’ve used the wedding ritual, for example, to make way for all of the people who come to, and want to be a part of, our performances. I have a very fortunate expressive sexuality I can work with, and part of that is based on not suffering the proportion of abuse and sexual damage that so many of us go through.
The personal was political, but it was also a call for love; it was about wanting to generate more love in the world. We realized that the ritual was a great platform for transmitting anything we wanted – a message, a feeling, a performance. If you frame something as a ritual, people seem to pay more attention.
Without realizing it, we subscribe to the defining limits of the patriarchal system.