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JUST CONTACT – Siriol Joyner
JUST CONTACT
only the gesture
Dancing in clubs has allowed us to make real our critical and crucial body.
Our arms, hands and wrists have been the location of our bodily insurrection: finesse, latitude, exuberance. ’Til we die, we'll fail over and over to dance a body complicit with the violent oppression of conservative masculinity: stoic, essential, oppressed, circumcised from sensation.
JUST CONTACT
DIRECT action
The touchscreen has a texture.
A fizzing skin developing and breaking and dissolving over and over again. Skin as membrane, sense organ, boundary, bridge between inside and out.
KEEP DRINKING GUINNESS
KEEP RANTING AWAY
The tactic is to get a large crowd, whip them up, try and discover what is the greatest fear, work on that, and feed it right back in a frenzy.
JUST CONTACT
only the gesture
The crux of the conundrum is the power of language.
No walking away from THOSE words.
The important thing is to really try to perceive something together and make that perception available to the witness.
— 'JUST CONTACT' is a choreographic text. It is both manifesto and dance score. It is a collage of found and original texts, and part of a series of manifesto pieces written while in residence with Ruairí Donovan & Karina Sarkissova at QUARTER in Cork, Ireland.