Swallow
To swallow means to inhale sensory experiences through the environment. There are things that determine our lives that we have to emotionally swallow. The external side is connected to the throat and goes down to the function organs. The performance is particularly hard physically speaking and painful. All senses are switched off. The penetration of the access to the uterus is the symbol of the most extreme lack of respect, of degeneration and of total contempt for human nature and for lives being born. There is decadence due to non-nature or counter-nature. The performance is a tribute to life itself. Horizontal and vertical ways of thinking are gathered in a single image. Thoughts are related to the notion of verticality; they are an in-depth work on a thought or an image. Horizontality is the expression of the diversity of ideas and thoughts; both are gathered in the same sequence of time and build up a whole by being complementary.
Swallows are migratory birds that fly thousands of kilometres every year and always stick to the same pre-established flight pattern, which is the basis of the survival of the species, and a mark of their fidelity and perseverance. This animal species, threatened of extinction, gives us hope again every spring.
Duration: 20 minutes
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Produced by: Brakke Grond Amsterdam 2005, SPIE


