'Meant Lament'

First presented in Interakcje IX Festival, Piotrkow Tribunalska, Poland, then Future of Imagination 4, Singapore, and Dimensja 0.99, Vilnius, Lithuania, and Centrum Kultury, Lublin, Poland.

Piotrkow Tribunalska was the site of the first Nazi ghetto for the Jewish population in Poland. A manifestAction concerned with generations, loss, and memory. I meditated on the loss of generations as a result of all conflicts, on all generations both past and never to be present. Walking at the same pace as I do with my son who only recently learned to walk, I walked in circles on top of a ring of soil, stopping now and again to retrieve gloves from the earth. I would place these on the edge of the table and then dig out twigs and leaves and other foreign objects from the soil and lay them on the gloves until they took the appearance of veins and bruises and lifelines. In the centre of the table, banked by earth and the two fish heads, I had a small fountain. The act of passing my breath to these heads, so close to water, was a very simple way for me to remember those who had gone and the subsequent generations that would never be with us.

Duration, 4 hours.

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