Image by ryen heart.
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This event will take place virtually on Zoom.
The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty coined the term the flesh of the world – this charged space, a viscous tension between organisms in relation, space we commonly think of as empty. This workshop co-hosted by 2022 CPR Artist-in-Residence ryen heart with poet and performer Amanda Monti researches pop music, tunnels, and the digestive tract as instances of the flesh of the world. We will be moving flesh, swallowing the consonant, and letting it move us toward an Oooooh. We will incorporate movement, imagination, and writing to channel that which makes us w/hole. Using pop music as source material we will play with the “viscous tension” between organisms, and allow consonants to transform hard matter into soft, honoring the temporary form of that which does not start or end in a body. From the vowels of pop to the bowels in our bodies, absorption is inevitable. Open to everyone, especially those interested in pop, w/holes, tunnels, digestion, and speculative movement practices.
The hosts have curated readings, and collaborative playlists of pop songs and music videos, as a menu for collective digestion, with a full download shared upon registration for the program. During the workshop, attendees are also invited to bring a pleasurable piece of nourishment, and eat however as much or as little as they would like. Familiarity with the provided materials might be nice, but is certainly not required.
ryen heart is a movement-based artist working in performance, video, and sound. their work centers devotion, apocalypse, embodied memory, and collective unconscious.
Amanda Monti is a cross-disciplinary poet and performer. They use playful research methodologies to create sites of porosity, love and ecological research.
Closed captioning or ASL interpretation may be provided, upon request, with at least two weeks’ advance notice, by emailing regine@cprnyc.org.
Performance Philosophy Reading Group is a regular reading group that invites artists and thinkers to facilitate discussion on a text or topic, in whatever way feels most productive.