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Seed

A story/ fable/veneration/prophesy about all of us designing lives together with nature.

Introduction

Prologue

(Scholar Mask Dance)

Proposed text

In The Book of Wei, thus is said: “2,000 years ago, there was Dangun Wanggeom. He chose Asadal as the capital and founded a nation. It was named Joseon. This was the same period as Emperor Yao.”
In the Records of Old, thus is said: “In ancient times, there was Hwan In. His illegitimate son Hwan Ung pondered all that was under heaven, and he yearned the human realm.
In the Records of Old, thus is said: “In ancient times, there was Hwan In. His illegitimate son Hwan Ung pondered all that was under heaven, and he yearned the human realm.
The father came to know of his son’s thoughts and gazed upon Samwi Taebaek, which he found suitable to broadly benefit the human world, so he gave Hwan Ung the three heavenly treasures, and sent him to rule them.
Hwan Ung, with 3,000 attendants, descended upon Taebaek Mountain, and underneath the holy tree, calling that place a city of the gods. He is called Hwanung, the Heavenly King.
He led the Count of the Wind, the Minister of the Rain, and the Minister of the Clouds to control harvest, to control life, to control disease, to control punishments, to control good and evil, and to control over 360 other matters of humanity, and brought order while residing in the human realm.

I. They're coming / The time has come
II. We are not affiliated / Our Land doesn't belong
III. Should we deluge them with pollen / These aren't crops
IV. This is where we live
V. We were too Late
VI. We Let Go
VII. We planted / We buried / We are waiting

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Research Project

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from Phantom Wings to Ashes

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This project

Abandoned - a thousand tongues

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:29:29 GMT

a story of resistance and restoration

Schedule

Overview

July (Space T) Workshops

- Workshop #1: 6 sessions ( 2 weeks M/W/F - 3 hour sessions) Maximum 15 participants
- Workshop #2: 6 sessions ( 2 weeks M/W/F - 3 hours sessions) Maximum 15 participants

August (Space T & Weekend Theatre) Focused Practice

12 Sessions ( 4 weeks M/W/F 3 hour sessions) 5 - 12 participants

September (Space T & Weekend Theatre)

8 Sessions ( 4 weekends 3 hour sessions) 5 - 12 participants

Full Rehearsal Schedule: (3 hours) 10 am - 1pm

Aug. (13)

1. Day / Wed. Aug. 2 : Cycle 1 Knot: eternal drifting / trapped / nameless. TextWork & Space

Space

near - far - infinite

Prompts

Two birds flew by my kitchen window. The birds’ necks were as thick as a human’s. I could clearly see the bird flying in front, and the bird next to it looked blurry, but I could tell that they were of the same species. As the first bird flew near me, I saw its face. The bird had a human face. When I woke up from the dream, I knew …

2. Day / Fri. Aug. 4 : Cycle 1 Knot: eternal drifting / trapped / nameless. TextWork & Time
3. Day / Mon. Aug. 7 : Cycle 2 Untying: the journey / rising Dancingness & Shape/
4. Day / Wed. Aug. 9 : Cycle 2 Untying: the journey / rising Dancingness & Shape/Movement
5. Day / Fri. Aug. 11 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears Singingness
6. Day/ Mon. Aug. 14 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears Singingness & Emotion
7. Day / Wed. Aug 16 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears Singingness & Story
8. Day / Fri. Aug. 18 : Cycle 3 Untying: ferrying/guiding - across the river of life and death Playingness
9. Day / Mon. Aug. 21 : Cycle 3 Untying: ferrying/guiding - across the river of life and death Playingness
10. Day /Wed. Aug 23 : Cycle 1 & 2 TextWork/Dancingness
11. Day / Fri. Aug. 25 : Cycle 1 & 2 TextWork/Dancingness
12. Day / Mon. Aug.28 : Outdoor & Cycle 3 Singingness & Playingness
13. Day / Wed. Aug. 30 : Outdoor & Cycle 3 Singingness & Playingness

Sept (7)

14. Day / Sun. Sept. 3 : Cycle 1 & 2 & 3 TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness
15. Day / Sat. Sept. 2 : Cycle 1 & 2 & 3 TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness
16. Day / Sat. Sept. 9 : Cycle 1 & 2 & 3 TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness
17. Day / Sun. Sept. 10 : Full TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness/Playingness
18. Day / Sat. Sept. 23 : Full TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness/Playingness
19. Day / Sun. Sept. 24 : Full TextWork/Dancingness/Singingness/Playingness
20. Day / Sat. Sept. 30 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears

October (9)

21. Day / Sun. Oct. 1 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears
22. Day / Sat. Oct. 7 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears
23. Day / Sun. Oct. 8 : Outdoor Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears
24. Day / Sat. Oct. 14 : (Outdoor Action)
25. Day / Sun. Oct. 15 : Full
26. Day / Sat. Oct. 21 : Dress/Tech
27. Day / Sun. Oct. 22 : Dress/Tech
28. Day / Fri. Oct. 27 : Preview
29. Day / Sat. Oct. 28 Performance

Text:

- Bari’s Love Song - Kang Unkyo
- Phantom Pain Wings -Kim Hyesoon
- I’m Ok, I’m Pig - Kim Hyesoon

Readings (3)

Princess Abandoned Essays Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f52fa798c2cfd60e4a8b4bc/t/6202105962274325ad6903f0/1644302426727/TRS11_KimHyesoon.pdf

I Do WomanAnimalAsia [Source] KOREAN LITERATURE NOWI Do WomanAnimalAsia [Source] KOREAN LITERATURE NOW

https://www.kln.or.kr/lines/essaysView.do?bbsIdx=650
https://www.kln.or.kr/lines/essaysView.do?bbsIdx=650

[Writer's Notes] A Singularity. Kim Hyesoon by Joyelle McSweeney September03, 2019 [Source] KOREAN LITERATURE NOW

https://www.kln.or.kr/lines/essaysView.do?bbsIdx=649
https://www.guernicamag.com/williams_kim_1_1_12/

Cycles

I. Resistance

- Knot: eternal drifting / trapped / nameless (10 min.) TextWork
- Untying: the journey / rising (10 min.) Dancingness

II. Restoration-AfterImage

- Knot: meeting/medicine - shared tears (15 min.) Singingness
- Untying: ferrying/guiding - across the river of life and death (10 min.). Playingness

Rhythm

(rhythms: walk/ dance/ jump/ circle/ song)

1. Beginning relaxed and slow & regular - gradual Nenda Nego a calling
2. Acceleration spiral form increasing / dividing the beat / quicker Tying Talda Tahra develop
3. Climax maintain a fast rhythm repeated Knot Mennunda Mehdgo … ordered chaos
4. Untie reaching a calmness Punda

Big Three Small Three

Teh sam so sam (Big three small three)

Sky Human Earth three in one
Jeong Jung Dong Calmness Middle Movement
Warm Heart Animal skin

Cool Mind Metal

Materials:

paper lanterns, sticks, ribbons,

Shape

circles, leaps, waves

Source

Korean shamanic myth of Bari Gongju—a story about resistance and restoration. The story describes the life of the seventh daughter of an ancient king of Joseon. Because she was a girl, Bari Kongjoo was abandoned by her parents, cast away in Hwangcheon[2], and left for eternal drifting. Her name, Bari, means “buhrida” (throwing away or abandoning) in Korean and implies a nameless state. As punishment for this abandonment, the king fell ill of an incurable disease. When Bari learned of her father’s illness, she journeyed to Heaven and cured him with the medicine that she had retrieved. The king offered Bari half of the palace as reward. However, Bari chose instead to become a goddess who guides souls. She turned into a ghost and has been ferrying souls across the river of life and death ever since. The soul that can cross borders and traverse separate worlds in the myth of Princess Bari (Gongju).
https://www.kmfa.gov.tw/ArtAccrediting/English/ArtArticleDetail.aspx?Cond=91429339-772e-49fc-988e-ccb225982e3b

Details

(As in other heroine myths, Paridegi is abandoned as soon as she is born. She is abandoned in the)

animals’ cage, back hill, backyard, marsh, sea of blood

(and such, and the abandonment doesn’t stop after this first phase. She goes through a terrible abandonment up to three times)

in the stream, Hwangch’ôn river, sea of blood, east sea, deep inside the mountain beyond the Ch’ôngch’ôn river, even inside a mountain cave.

The abandoned Paridegi is raised by

cranes, magpies, turtles,
I have an animal body that’s connected to the natural world
farewell, sorrow, loss, identity, discontent, crisis, blame
compassion and remorse

Prompts

Two birds flew by my kitchen window. The birds’ necks were as thick as a human’s. I could clearly see the bird flying in front, and the bird next to it looked blurry, but I could tell that they were of the same species. As the first bird flew near me, I saw its face. The bird had a human face. When I woke up from the dream, I knew …
I was angry at myself for not asking why two birds had appeared in my dream. I felt as if my face had been buried in the sand. … I called out for birds endlessly.
my trypophobia intensified. Now I can’t stand seeing clusters of holes. I can’t bring myself to open any containers filled with matchsticks, toothpicks, and cotton swabs.
I see are the holes of the consonant ᄋ[4]. Those little vacuous holes stare at me. Soonᄒ[5] consonants. Next are consonants ᄆ[6], then ᄇ[7]. I had no choice but to read books in English. But then I found “o’s” in English. I begin to detest the letters “a,” “b,” “d,” “p,” “q” in this order. Also capital “Q” and “R.” I can only read after I black out the letters with my pen. But there are still too many hole letters. The book eventually is completely blackened. I throw out poetry books filled with blackened letters. …I fall into selective mutism once again.[8]

Images

Art by Fi Jae Lee. "Angel of Every Religion" (2017).

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Writing

I erase the ᄋᄆᄆ consonants from 엄마 ŏmma [mommy] and leave only the ᅥ,ᅡ vowels. ᅥ ᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ,ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ, ᅥᅡ[9]
Erased consonants look for me, or don’t. What’s found is the erased, so it’s no better than not
looking in the first place; the not-looking acknowledges the erased, so it’s also no better than not looking. Therefore, I keep erasing until the erased consonants pat me, hug me, take me away, and speak to me. ᄋᄆᄆ, ᄋᄆᄆ, ᄋᄆᄆ, ᄋᄆᄆ … The sound of me crying when I take myself away as I leave this world ᄋᄆ ᄆ, ᄋᄆᄆ, ᄋᄆᄆ. The sound of real crying.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/160173/bird-rider

How to practice and make plural the written and spoken—grammar, syntaxes, textures, intonations...”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/160173/bird-rider

Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZqD2iqxJ0

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New project staring to take shape:

Abandoned - a thousand tongues