Tuesday, October 23, 2007

release paralysis

brainstorming ideas of the performance.. shall i call it 'witnessing' (perhaps too convinient a word?)

main words
- witness
- ship - the middle passage
- pain
- outsiders insiders, divided by generations
- audience participation
- performance
- visual arts
- ritual

we are witnessing
how to let people witness
performing to remember, performing to witness
eyes... watching, ears... listening
how are we effected? -memory -trauma
hardship that leads to surviving and thriving

we are all witnesses of something in history.

storytelling.. what did you witness?

(quotes of people's testimony. what can i do with them?)

what are you to do after you've witnessed? what can you do?

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