clouds from a crumbling giant

Showing work in progress for a life cycle mapped through a Daoist perspective. Directed by Shinichi Iova-Koga, we examine the nature and quality of decline through aging, and the inclusion of elder bodies within the performance landscape. Berkeley Art Museum sees the connect and graciously hosts: To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)Permanent Collection.

I keep thinking

“There is a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is being. There is nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Suddenly there is nonbeing.”

Showing up with the concert bass drum and flower pots, one ride cymbal and dan moi, with esteemed collaborators guided by the vision of Dan Cantrell:

• Adria Otte
• Jon Raskin
• Khatchadour Khatchadourian
• Edward Schocker