COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé

homesickness

Hiraeth /hɪəraɪ̯θ/ is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation.  An attempt to define it : homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire for the Wales of the past.

Saudade  is a Portuguese or Galician  word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never return.  A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing.

Describe in writing a nearby object or place along with your mental landscape while describing it: any association, memory, image, comment (seemingly relevant or irrevelant). This is a document of your mental landscape, with no attempt to be interesting, poetic, clever, clever, funny or dramatic. Use full sentences or sentence fragments, i.e. not a list of words. Then either:

1) Move starting with any texture, quality, or image that came up in the description, allowing the movement to develop & change in whatever way it's going.

2) Speak the words you've written, feeling free to repeat sentences, words, phrases, or the whole thing. Let your once slide in pitch, volume, & speed.

A conversation between mediums, between distances, between gentrifying neighborhoods, between the imagined, the forgotten and the new, between deep holes and high cranes.

Maps without geography.

Improvisation + Performance research into scores, memory, nostalgia, poetic impulse, loss of home and rubble. 

ALL RISE SEATTLE: In Situ

COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé: (cartography + scores + performance research) This research will jump from improvisational scores & cartography into an absurd puff pastry of neighborhoods, homesickness, rubble, gentrification & fantastical landscapes.  Conceptually coping with neighborhood growth and loss by superimposing Capitol Hill & the Cascade Neighborhood.  In brightly colored paper costumes, we’ll bravely overlap imaginative psychic geographies on Karl Burkheimer’s sculptural installation “In Situ”.  Ensembles of 2-25 people writing, drawing, discussing, performing, and coping with the impact of gentrification.

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