Witnessing ‘Yellow’
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Performance assistance and article by Paola Catizone, Artist and Visitor Engagement Team, IMMA.
The term “Journey” has been so over-used in the yoga/therapeutic literature that I had vowed to avoid it at all costs, place a moratorium on it, and find a less jaded substitute. Looking back at 35 years of yoga teaching and training however, it really feels like a journey, or a trip, a voyage. [...]
How do we begin to tell the story of the evolution of species? The developmental shape shifting, the exodus of creatures from sea to land and the morphic and movement transformations that occurred during that lengthy journey? [...]
Limits are necessary if form is to emerge in the material world. Without limits, entropy ensues. Drawing may well be the most limited of all art disciplines. The variety of tools used in drawing are, by necessity, restricted. The process of drawing can be described as the result of dragging a pencil, charcoal or marker onto paper or other surface, to produce scratch-like lines. [...]
Being in the moment, being present, in the now, notions of semi enlightened states borrowed from eastern spirituality have became ordinary currency both in everyday life and in art. [...]
The focus of this thesis is the experience of embodiment as a conduit for immediacy, power, presence and liberation. [...]