| With Your Essay Dancing On
I wonder about her who is appropriating the video images. Imagine, see
- but no, it's not you, I haven't met you but I know it isn't you. She,
wearing camel coat, heels hugged by leather shoes, swerves past, in light
scrutiny touches each screen, seeking?
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pronouncements around the Turner Prize Anthony Gormley says and fleetingly
the idea - inhabiting an organic body within an increasingly inorganic
world, holds but his universalising from his experience of body repels,
tires with its repetitions. How many bodies have you inhabited, inhibited
Mr Gormley? Plaster wrap casts shadows over mine And Mr Freud how
many minds have you inhabited and how many bodies too, come to that? Just
whose inhibitions framed what writings? *When Arthur Berry,
who is also dead, had Dr Fergo, a character in one of his plays, say all
men are trying to get back to where they'd come from, the womb - it seemed
an odd part of their body to start their re-entry, after all they weren't
born penis first, thank goodness. It would also mean gay men have lost
their sense of direction when they head for the intestines (and some straight
men too) and women, well could be that having a womb of their own is sufficient.
Perhaps Dr Fergo's reasoning is a bit off balance - back to the drawing
board. Stop laughing, I know it's improbable, to your common sense, daft,
seeking permanent entombment in the womb of another but you never know
- it might be possible to be envious of a womb when you don't have one,
makes more sense than envying a narrow tube. I don't mind men
making excuses for their peck-adilloes but telling me who I am, what I
feel, what I think, what's wrong with me, what I'm here for, this I fucking
hate, whoever does it, whatever gender | |||
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"body in its own psychoses"
stewing in its own juices, a
tasty mortal for cannibalism?
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*A. Berry - painter
(featured in Omnibus programme); was head of painting; agoraphobic; plays
performed at Vic Theatre in the round. Thought women going to art college
was pointless as they marry and have children. This opinion wasn't put
forward to me, perhaps he thought a Disabled woman different. Not that
having only one arm affected his prospects, though it was told to me that,
many, many years ago his wife 'ran off' with an actor who played Tarzan. |
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