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John Harrigan Interview - Alterati.

"When you learn how to write an article(tm), you are generally taught that you’re supposed to frame things for your audience with your lead. But in this case I would only be giving you a copy of a copy of a copy. When you’re posed with a performance like Dead Language, it doesn’t so much matter what your critique is. I don’t come away from this with any need to make sense of a plot or analyze the performance based on traditional criteria. I’m not thinking anything at all. Everything that happened was visceral, emotional, possibly subconscious. So what can I tell you? If you went to see a play, and it terrified you so much you pissed all over yourself and broke your leg trying to flee the building, would that be a “good” play?"

Dead Language - Prague

FP leave for Prague tomorrow to live and work on Dead Language at a remote farmhouse that has been offered to us by a member of FP's family.

Lucy and I are still currently without a home, which suits us fine at the moment. Existing on the generosity of others restores your faith that everything just might turn out OK.

Expect pictures from Prague as work progresses. In the meantime I have loaded the first photos to the Desecration album.

Desecration come down

Well...most of us certainly look like we're on a come down from serious heroin addiction with all the bruises and injuries incurred from Desecration! However, it's been such an incredible building to have the opportunity to work (and play) within and all the physical pain and scars seem a small price to pay when we've been able to work with all the energies from the building in such an intimate way.

Anyway, on behalf of FP, I would like to say thank you to the following people for their support, talent, effort and commitment to Desecration:

Martin Jeffery, an incredible and true magickian, his wife Louise, Sulu and all at Fright Nights & Theatre of Ophidia for all their support,  without whom this production wouldn't  have happened. We can't wait to watch and be a part of future ventures!

All the talented cast: Tereza, David, James, Carina, Naia, Yiri, Nicole, Iara, Claire and Victoria. It's been such a pleasure and I can't wait to work with you all again.

All the members of staff at the Galleries of Justice who've been such help and devoted their time to our project, especially Laura and Trev!

Polly for all her commitment and support, and doing such an amazing job, and all the rest of the production team for devoting their time and effort into our project.

Victoria for her beautiful sounds, we couldn't imagine producing any FP productions without your magickal input; they just seem to be embedded in perfect synchronicity within all narratives.

Yiri for his perfect manic drawings, continually supporting us artistically and for throwing himself into FP (literally!)

Orryelle for his beautiful input on Sunday evening, we cannot wait to collaborate with you once again.

Christopher for his incredible poster.

Joyce, Karen, Finn & Gage Harrigan and Helen & Daniel Allin for their eternal support.

John for creating such a beautiful realm of Deluge for us all to exist, for being a genius: the pulsing heart of FP. It's a pleasure to work with you, (even the sharp and brutal moments!) I could never thank you enough.

Asmadai for gracing us with his presence.

 

Beautiful mother; gentle sharp eyes watching over us through time and ten dimensions. Deadly soft velvet pounding, DYL prowls our bounds.

The beast of FP for sustaining us; and the mysteries which forever shine upon us.

Spectral Light - Desecration Review

"The galleries are sleeping now, however the energies set in motion are not lost just circling through the ether waiting to be awakened again."

Paol Summit reviews Desecration on Spectral Light. Click on the reviews tag at Spectral Light to read the full text.

Desecration - Final Times

Photos from the final night of Desecration. Expect a photo album of images on FP later this week, along with after thoughts.

At the moment I need to heal all the cuts and bruises, literally had my back torn open last night, although other members of FP are in a much worse state than me.

Next up a week full of various interviews and casting for Dead Language.

Institute of Contemporary Arts : Reaktion animals : Cat

Link: Institute of Contemporary Arts : Reaktion animals : Cat.

Cat traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt c. 2000 BC, where it enjoyed high status, through its centuries as a mere utilitarian rodent catcher, its gradual acceptance as a charming and amiable pet, and its present status as a companion on a par with the dog.

Cats' ease of negotiation in the dark, their silent movements, their self-detachment even as they live in our homes, their refusal to defer to humans, seem to indicate strange, even supernatural powers. At first these attributes seemed sinister, but for later cat lovers they add to the animals' fascination. They have inspired writers from Poe to Lewis Carroll to imaginative creations. But cats can also be the embodiment of a happy home and good friends, whether they sustain a lonely old woman like Hall's Fräulein Schwartz or chat pleasantly with an old man in Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. The peculiar fascination of the cat, indeed, is the diversity of images it projects - sweet and ferocious, affectionate and independent, elegant and earthy, cosily domestic and eerie.

Deluge

Is it possible to fall in love with a building. I believe so. Deluge has become my world and BenBen my home. The Galleries of Justice is a place of incredible power that through time has been home to terrible suffering. You can still feel it, if you allow yourself to pause as you wander the realm of Deluge. After the suffering and pain comes growth and learning. All you have to do is be willing to seek out the other-side of your demise.

What keeps us solid in those times when we are about to fall in the most terrible and awful manner, when something is trying to destroy us, to desecrate all we are. Is it the light inside us that protects our memory. Yes sometimes but more times than not its the darkness that resides in us all that keeps us solid, never allowing us to betray our beating hearts, to weaken or kneel before slavery or true Evil. Dragging our will to its feet kicking and screaming, as we beg to just relent and die.

The Demon that resides in us all is the darkness that will sustain us when everything else has left our sides. It will insure your ultimate survival.

Desecration is dedicated to the living memory of my Demon.

Desecration manifests this coming Tonight.

Operate

I'm finally seeing the true value of keeping a work journal.

To operate effectively and not end up shutting down completely I need to have some space to allow the structure of my mind to shift away from the gaze of anything that has a beating heart.

Drifting today after checking out, I have now decamped to the NFT, using their project space to continue work on the redraft of Dead Language for the ICA, before heading back up to Nottingham tonight for the performance week of Desecration.