Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Archive
Volume 14 Number 3, December 2013
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notes on jade mccutcheon’s lecture
by
Rhodes University, South Africa
jade mccutcheon seems frail, as though
she’s growing more ephemeral, as if
she’s letting her self go...
jade mccutcheon says selves can’t be separated
the idea of my self and your self is false,
because there is only one self...
she says peter brook wants connections
between audience & actors – a single vibration;
the performance of self beyond the material.
we are all the same
here in this room.
jade mccutcheon says grotowski asks:
“who is singing?”
is it you or your grandmother
singing her life through you?
or is it everyone from her village,
her time, her place, her lineage...
do many actors have
out of body experiences?
is a core consciousness bit by bit
created as consciousness extends?
are we part of an invisible being,
one metaphysical body?
i tend to believe everything,
that everything is true...
jade mccutcheon says stanislavski wrote about
the pull between performer and audience,
about how the exchange happens,
about how one can allow oneself to flow
into moments and situations...
go with it...relax into
the impulse of the energy...
everything you do is the right thing to do,
it’s impossible to be wrong...
there is no non-being, no negative
of being, no opposite / zero and one
are both states of being and
death is also a way of being.
dark matter holds the universe together...
everything is exactly the way it is…
all thinking is false...your brain
is breathing through you,
something singing through you.
thinking is more opposite
to being than death.
no eyes, no ears,
no embodiment –
“where is your home?”
jade mccutcheon is slipping away,
speaking softly her last thoughts,
her last life preparing
her awakening body
for its last dream...