Manipulations-Research score with 'difference'.

Voices: Outi Condit, Joa Hug, Riikka T. Innanen, Tashi Iwaoka, Paula Kramer & Josh Rutter

 

 

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Proposition Four: Articulate Difference

 

 

 

 

 

 










What’s changed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feels like

 

Changing

 

By different touches

 

Indeed different touch creates different

 

Is changing the

 

Body

 

Ontology altogether

 

Quality or texture

 

 

 

 

 

Receiving a different type of touch changes the way I think

 

And create thought

 

 

 

How am I conditioned in terms of generating thought?

 

 

 

What’s the difference between reflecting on

 

The condition prevailing

 

And the abstract?

 

 

 

Thing-lifying

 

Thing-lification

 

Playful                                    

 

What if I refuse?

 

What if I refuse

 

Can I call my elbows            

 

To harness my thoughts?

 

Knees?

 

And my knees my elbows?

 

What’s the difference?

 

Yes I can!           

 

 

 

Can this lead to a way of thinking

 

Or is it exercising me away from

 

 

 

Ongoing relationship

 

Cutting

 

 

 

Have I become an object?

 

I’ve always been an object

 

 

 

Tactic                                    

 

Am I a collection of different objects?

 

Am I

 

 

 

Is it still a vain practice?

 

In between

 

What’s the same?

 

Things with things and fluids made out of things

 

Particles

 

Molecular structures

 

 

 

Fingerprints

 

Can things have empathy?

 

Can thing be thinking?

 

Can things feel?

 

Is feeling a thing?

 

 

 

Can an object body transcend duality?

 

What’s the difference?

 

 

 

Having someone’s touch really enforces my limitation of my knowledge

 

A certain practice

 

And indeed this is a meeting of two different habits

 

Of

 

What?

 

Habitat?

 

What shall I call it?

 

Anyway it’s a mutual exchange

 

Exchange in real-time

 

My body condition is different

 

What’s the difference if this is ‘rain’ and not ‘Manipulations’?

 

It’s changing my way of thinking

 

           

 

Can I

 

Can I get this much efficiency of developing my way of

 

Different way of thinking when I do with my own research score?

 

 

 

And what’s the difference between duo and solo?

 

 

 

Can I really imagine so appropriate

 

Or appropriated way

 

The other body?

 

 

 

This touch of Josh

 

[inaudible]

 

Is not my imagination

 

Does that mean I can’t imagine this touch?

 

 

 

Is it completely impossible to imagine the other?

 

 

 

I usually can’t get this much of thought

 

Huge

 

Is it happening just because it’s Josh who is manipulating?

 

 

 

So if I’m being manipulated

 

Is it still me talking?

 

 

 

It must have a certain effect who is touching

 

 

 

Is it

 

We

 

Are we talking?

 

Are we the manipulated being talking?

 

Are we couples

 

Talking?

 

Are we all talking?

 

Or am I God talking?

 

Josh talking through us?

 

I tried

 

Academia?

 

to fit in my recreation on top of this tactile manipulation and I get

 

My recreation got nearly almost lost

 

It’s so weak

 

It’s weak

 

 

 

What’s the difference between what I imagine and what is?

 

Oh God

 

Oh Jesus Christ

 

It’ll be different this time

 

 

 

Touching or moving through the in-between

 

It’s just

 

It’s become so

 

Complicated

 

 

 

Is it really Tashi and Josh doing the Manipulations?

 

Or is it something that the name doesn’t capture?

 

Whatever this is

 

We’re both doing it

 

 

 

Or are we doing different things?

 

 

 

Are Tashi and I really touching right now?

 

 

 

Are we just hacking a survival mechanism that privileges being together?

 

 

 

Are we just playing out a recombination of mammalian potentials?

 

 

 

Is a body populated by more intensities more differentiated?

 

 

 

One key is in the form

 

 

 

Or is differentiation a necessary condition for intensities to inhabit the body?

 

 

 

Is the research score a sub-species or its own animal?

 

 

 

Is it reproductively isolated from the Manipulations?

 

 

 

Is it different enough?

 

 

 

Your voice enters my system

 

Your blood does not

 

Your flesh is different from my flesh

 

 

 

 

 

What if we got blood transfusions from each other and then did the research score?

 

 

 

I feel

 

Human intentionality behind the touch

 

 

 

 

 

Can I shift my perception?

 

 

 

Does a reflexive practice like the research score have a chance of transmission

 

Or does its self-awareness

 

Preclude that?

 

 

 

Does the artistic research environment render practices barren

 

In terms of

 

Not reproductive?

 

 

 

The difference of touch

 

Differentiation of skin

 

Granulation

 

In a totally different state of being

 

Available

 

Arrived

 

Present

 

What’s the relationship between confidence and embodiment?

 

 

 

Here-ness and embodiment?

 

 

 

Faithful and betrayal

 

Intricately interwoven