De sueño en sueño. A poem in voice and letters.

(Sorry, there is no translation of this poem yet)

De sueño en sueño

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Y uno va así, de sueño en sueño, andando, saltando, volando,

viendo pasar la muerte de los otros en un rito incomprensible de cada noche,

de cada sueño, de cada sensación de letargo…

Uno va por ahí matando todo y a todos,

mira su tumba, la del amado, la del perdido, la del odiado.

Uno va de sueño en sueño rodando, con lágrimas que despiertan al otro,

con gritos que no dejan dormir,

y ese se sobresalta, y ese suda, y ese se levanta:

-está dormido- nos dicen, -déjalo soñar en paz, que está descansando-

Sí, uno va, de uno a otro, en una vida completa, entera, donde no más razonamos;

mitad de nuestra existencia o más, mucho más, que se siente plena;

una vida siempre más intensa, más amplia, más extensa,

y de ella sólo un vago intento de recuerdo,

un recuento que se difumina al hablarlo y en poco ya no lo recordamos…

Y sí, uno va así, de sueño en sueño, sin demora,

de sueño en sueño, con los brazos apretados, las rodillas doliendo y los dientes rechinando,

uno va, de sueño en sueño, palpitando hacia la muerte o hacia el sentirse despertando.




Gustavo Thomas
(Toronto, Canada. Septiembre, 2011)









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A new book about Ron Athey, a performance art artist

I'm sharing the entirely note about a new book on Ron Athey's work, and it is because I believe in the necessity of expanding the knowledge of new forms of art, those which show our limits and watch beyond anything in our time.

Pleading in the Blood: The Art of Ron Athey from andrew mitchelson on Vimeo.

This will be the first ever publication devoted to the work of Ron Athey, a central figure in the development of performance art since the 1980s. Edited by Dominic Johnson, Pleading in the Blood: The Art of Ron Athey will foreground the prescience of Athey’s work, exploring how his visceral, body-based practice foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded to the body in art and critical theory in the 1990s and after. While histories of art, performance, theatre, and subcultures have consistently acknowledged Athey’s major contribution to the development of contemporary cultures, there has never been a dedicated book about him. Pleading in the Blood aims to fill this conspicuous gap. Developed in close collaboration with Ron Athey, this book seeks to provide a critical overview of Athey’s practice. In his stagings of crisis, sexuality and death in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits of artistic practice. Athey has been a crucial figure in the development of performance art and body art; club performance; intersections between punk, queer and alternative cultures; sexual politics, specifically in relation to queer practices and the politics of HIV/AIDS; and the representation of religion and ritual.

The book will track Athey’s work from the 1980s underground through to his influential works for festivals, galleries and museums, which have crucially impacted upon the development of body art, Live Art and experimental theatre. The book will include contributions from distinguished national and international artists, writers and scholars: six newly commissioned chapters on different aspects of Athey’s work; shorter ‘testimonials’ by artists; Athey’s own writings; and extensive full-colour images. Contributors include Amelia Jones, C. Carr, Adrian Heathfield, Lydia Lunch, Dominic Johnson and Patrick Califia amongst many others.



The book will be published in 2012.



More information on Ron Athey’s work can be seen here:

http://ronatheynews.blogspot.com/

The Agency and MIT Press have already raised two thirds of the publication’s budget. However, we believe that Pleading in the Blood merits the highest possible standards and be as richly illustrated and as lavishly produced as possible. Your support will strongly enhance those production values and will be a crucially needed step in meeting our collective vision for the book.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Pleading-in-the-Blood-The-Art-of-Ron-Athey

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Casta Diva (From my Butoh Vlog)

Gustavo Thomas Butoh Vlog (Sept 13, 2011) "Casta Diva"

I have to accept that I enjoy a lot this idea of moving during my Butoh training wearing anything that makes unrecognizable my "persona".

In my last Butoh Vlog post I worked wearing a wig, a woman mask and using a bed cover. The inner images were still there, of course (that's actually the job), but that play with objects provoked a change of style influencing my movement and of course the result in video. 

As usal, the music I was listening to during my training was not what you're listening to in this video vlog (I mean Casta Diva sung by Callas); I erased the first sound and then add the new piece when I feel this matchs with what I was seeing there. The final edition is unexpected, yes, but very satisfying.

I'm sharing some screen photographs (from the video, of course) and the video itself. You can find all posts of my Butoh Vlog in this page:  http://gustavothomasbutohvlog.tumblr.com/

Butoh Vlog (Sept 13, 2011): Casta Diva from Gustavo Thomas on Vimeo.
Butoh Vlog (Sept 13, 2011): Casta Diva

Slideshow in Flickr:

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A Selfportrait

AUTOPORTRAIT WITH TENNIS SOCKS

"Autoportrait with Tennis Socks" (Digital Art by Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

My work is becoming an interminable line of all kind of selfportraits, so I've decided to add painting to writing, speaking and acting. This is an example...

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My blood has turned into ink...

Cocteau was right: 

"My blood has turned into ink". 

I'm ready to write anything, 

I have enough in my arms and legs.

Pain / Dolor (Photo Manipulation by Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Cocteau avait raison

 "Mon sang est devenu de l'encre". 

Je suis prêt à écrire n'importe quelle chose, 

j'ai plein dans mes bras et jambes.

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