THE UNDERWORLD

First attempt to create a personal rite of passage in collaboration with Jade Wilford.

24 hours performance involving 3 parts.

February 2015

user guide

PART I: THE KILLING

Morning time - Through the Day
Making and chanting in a squat, a bare home that doesn’t belong to us.
Attached to every single piece of wood with string.
Drilled and nailed the wood into a sculpture/structure whilst being attached,
tangling the string, making it harder and harder to move, until almost total immobilisation.

At noon
A meal on the sculpture/structure to be embodied one last time before our killing
Cut the strings that tied us to the structure - acknowledgement through chanting.
The structure - patterns/complexes/repetitions/reflexes/transgenerational behaviour/remains of trauma
that we wish to seperate ourselves from.

PART II: DEATH OR THE UNDERWORLD

At Sundown

Equipped with handmade weapons, allies, creatures from before and after
visiting the places that hold fear
 

Tais’s Underworld: the woods
Jade’s Underworld: a destruction site

PART III: COMING OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD

At Sunrise

Jade kisses her snake’s tongue and decides to become a story teller
Taïs decides to go in search of Persephone's voice and desires.

What we have seen we keep

We part ways.