PL AYBILL subway stations of the cross
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A pproxi m at e ru n ni ng t i m e: 1 hou r T her e w ill be no i n t er m ission
ARTIST NOTE: INS CHOI
When I was in grade 8, I realized that my mom couldn’t tell the difference between me practicing piano and me fooling around on the piano. Each evening as she prepared dinner, I’d make up half an hour worth of new music. Sometimes my new music would spark an emotion or trigger an image or story and I’d write them down. This was the beginning of my writing. I write to figure out my thoughts, feelings. It’s a vehicle. Often I’m critical of my writing too soon. I write and edit right away. Sometimes, I’ve edited back down to a blank page. I do what I call, “Writing exercises in rhythm, reason and rhyme”. (Even that title took a while to land on.) These are nonsensical poems that give me permission – that invite me to play with words and logic regardless of how it sounds. I always begin writing poems with paper and pen. Something about scratching. When there’s something, I enter it into my laptop and edit it. I print out a draft. I memorize it and edit it. I perform it somewhere and
edit it. Written words inform my eyes. Spoken words inform my ears. Performed words inform my body as I breathe between phrases and prepare for enough air to last the thought. In 2002, a deranged homeless man spoke to me for an hour. I began writing and eventually edited it down to this show. Thank you for coming. ins choi Play wright, Creator and Performer of Subway Stations of the Cross
TIDBIT • T he stations of the cross is a series
of 14 pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus’ progress from his condemnation by Pilate to his crucifixion and burial. In some churches, devotions are performed before these images.
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