Notes on Not-Knowing
performance, duration 1 hour.
A collaboration between Honi Ryan and Abdullah Khan.
Somos Art Gallery, Kotbusser Damm 95, Neukoelln, Berlin.
6-9pm August 2nd, 2014
Two artists sit opposite each other and form an unspoken connection.
Periodically they write their thoughts on cards, and stack them on top of each other.
After an hour, the narrative is woven together in order for all to read,
uncovering a sequence of not-known connections.
THE CARDS:
Focus or out of
a stream of wind
What constitutes you? Is it your eyes?
it’s a matter of depth!
turned a circle around impermanently
Forehead scars or marks.
That makes two of us.
Now we’re being watched
diagonally from left to right
break through the form
what might will be
might sound crazy but I know your smell already.
worship exchange
A dragon’s tail dipped in the ocean
to laugh
How does one not see abode body?
How do you look past a body → through.
How does one make you more than that
And all of a sudden you are no longer your body.
a drip to walk into the past
Alright - that really was Amy!
haha! I we love Amy.
move into interruption
as the bottom falls out in a fuzz
in a phase of blurry edges -
nothing below
REFLECTION
another drip drops
A flicker of sadness
A flicker of death.
a dark imbalance switches sides
Oh! Yes! Of course!
↓
NOISE
surrender in
Telepathy in the ears
not necessarily in the eyes.
♢
—
reverse a cycle of years fallen.
☓
To let you be in your body - to not pull you out of it.
remains present in all parts at once
It’s been nice knowing you.
loosing the edges
a present
past future
proportionately shifting
you
when it breaks run with it.
you make the call.
close in around
have my eyes
an expression through foreign glass.
I switched three times and you not once.
I can be with you in silence
slide through and pop
the fascination of youth to return
where it began I saw the man
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