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8/8/2019 Contemporary visual art – Hassan Sharif Performance
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a body that I hardly know
But knowing it.
Nimble body, the then body,
from one point to another
penetrating the ropes, as following a map.
Ambiguity of the flesh
misunderstanding the sense,
the senses.
Negative films reverse the motion,
not the time.
3.
Washing corridor
Big squares, the pavement like
a bequest of past ages, unmindful.
Sponge and soap, bowed on the slabs,
the perfume breaks into the calm
Victorian afternoon.
I often desired to be an inventor
to create a recorder for scents,
fractals of experience.
Images, over the collective memory,
have unspoken privilege
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and the senses breathe impressions
to be erratic remembrance.
4.
Conversation in toilet
The composition of the picture, mastery of the past,
become urgency, in the time of cubicles and cabinets
shattering the space, and the decency of living.
Lost words have no weight.
Better the silence,
or allusions.
Rooms are cold, no exception, and cold filters
through the image, nor his body can warm mine.
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5.
Nylon rope
Weighs, the time of absence,
like salt over fertile soil.
To tie up a free one,
and then abandon him without
restoring the condition of be-fore
shades with mystery
the very sense of belonging.
Of rush and fibre bodies mate
and like a rope, desire extends.
6.
Marcel Duchamp “Nine shots make nine holes”
A child, I built identities
for escaping the tedium of singleness
and creating alibis for later flights.
Belonging insinuates itself under
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the skin, ungrateful.
Nine strokes left a trace
on my skin, a geography of lines
dilating over the time.
Careless, I wait for the impact,
astounded observing the wound,
as if occurring to someone else and I
only happened to be a witness.
7.
Body and Squares
Perfect the measure of the body,
corresponding to the rule,
untiringly explores
humanistic researches.
It doesn’t fear wounds, and free
gives itself up to the contact with
the least stabbing body
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yet the most despairing.
The exile has lost the way back home,
after sunset feverish holding the key
that opens no door.
8.
Reading – Poem – 4 minutes
Vocalizing the time,
like a singer intent
on repeating the exercise
of the daily servitude
to art.
Perseverance of the desire
curdled low in the belly
and no fragment of infinity
can more than clinging bodies
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9.
Sound of the act
The anonymity of the rooms
where words have anchored to thoughts
and opened out.
Brimful sound, syllables run after each other
sliding like water from the mouth
like bread driving the touch,
soft amalgam where briefly
handprints survive.
10.
Writing with water
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Erratic is the word
and the trace lies in the body,
like a scar rapidly drying up.
To which order and rule
do we still want to submit to
though for the slight time
of writing?
Less than materials the skin absorbs,
permeable if not wounded.
Otherwise saturated.
11.
Recording stones
In the field of the memory
on the bottom of a hole mapped out by war
the thin shape of the woman still moving,
inane her effort to displace stones
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erected by faraway men,
abandoned through the time.
It’s raining, only those
trying to protect themselves
notice. Rain pressing against
the glasses of closed windows
streaming through openings.
How many times have we been hugged?
12.
Swing
Offstage voice correcting
notes – over an ancient track,
reducing, removing
the un-essential, nearly everything.
Sounds, piano and forte,
like stricken metal
pierce through the senses.
A dawn of vibrations
creeps into the memory
and the swing goes back to
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rise and fall until reaching
the greatest height
that of desire and estrangement.
13.
Coloured squares
Echo of the steps on the pavement
palpable also in dreams,
when the body is less guarded
and belonging is a fleeting feeling.
The direction of the movement
taught by urgency
or fortuitousness; rarer the sure
determinism of a sequence,
colours and numbers as manifest dictates,
but unwitting, for the rhythm.
Sleep, like a treasure,
defended.
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14.
Sound
The shadow on the wall says,
about a place, precious details,
and opaque surfaces, like mirrors,
reflect precluded outside.
To deduct hours from the time
is the privilege of the ineligible
the one who does ignore, not the flow,
but its fractioning.
15.
Jumping
Summer day, like an agony,
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to elapse. The old ruined house
a repeated invite eventually
unavoidable. Inside the stairs creak
under our children’s feet
hesitating in the faded dark,
interstices of the frames made a filter.
Back to the upper light, un-balustraded
balcony, the emptiness underneath.
You try to keep me, weaker than desire.
Jump!
16.
Jumping in desert
Set the distance
but unknown is the measure
resulting of reiterated paths.
each time the torture at leaving,
longing for arrival. The opposite
less true, though pretended
or assumed.
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The line linking two places
like an inclination
transcends control, and reason.
17.
Walking
Permanence of the shadow, after the body
goes away and observes from enough
distance to create desire.
Walking does not imply stopping
nor turning. Pausing the movement
as a dignified gesture.
Pauses are action.
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19.
Throwing stones
It has multiple declinations
Strength, nor one root can suffice
to name exceptions
designated title to describe
what cannot, within rules, be inscribed
lying outside, sneering at
absolutory desires of definition.
For all the rules I have set
and imposed,
I beg forgiveness.
20.
26 squares
“Dive”. Writing does not say
the prolongation of the vowel,
the extension of the movement
- in time and space –
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to a formal completeness.
It isn’t my mother tongue
the tongue of body, later acquired,
labouring the syllables and the aspirations
millimetrically shifting the limbs
to see the researched flexion
reflected by a mirror.
And then lose it at a glance.
21.
Spray paint and ruler
Room saturated with absence
like a poisoning excuse.
From the front balcony,
the unexpected scene struck my imagination:
it was the time of open windows
and phone calls at dead of night.
Now everything is order, and silence.
The sacredness of sleep like a wardrobe
which doors were cautiously closed.
I pull a cord taut between my hand and the wall
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drawing its projection on the floor
a net created. Like my words,
between the lines.
22.
Digging and standing
Early morning - we used to wake up -
house suspended in the light. Like glass,
the walls betrayed our secrets.
Ointment jars suppurated by fragrances
inundated the waiting hours
until the following night,
the sighed time of escape.
That cautious excavation
of traces from past existences,
for not losing anything - how presumptuous -
after breaking, of earth ,
the seal.
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23.
Removing cement blocks
Looking for a pretext
the actual lack of attention
attracted by alliteration.
Doubled, the fate,
the classical towered fate
sitting near the river.
Back to order,
like a clause to a contract,
the domesticated is allowed
temporary evasions.
The hugest weight, not that of lifting,
but of replacing the pieces.
24.
Staff of the project
Fetching castle, near the lazy river,
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where northern shadows invaded the hall
- only the names still survive.
I waited for guests, but shunned
the contact, at some distance
nor habit has changed
the temptation to escaping.
Great Bach made an art out of it
which I do emulate and dissimulate.
Reluctantly present in the conversation
his very being here,
a recognition.
25.
Hair and milk bottle
You ask me if I fell down
- you do observe my body and
I have no knowledge.
Through a distance I answer
“I didn’t know how to fall”.
Falling is an art difficult
to learn, persistently
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in apprenticeship.
So many more abrasions to come
before calibrating the fall,
how to detach the body
and the way of the contact,
or of abandonment.
26.
Library
Fullness, emptiness, void.
Attention first attracted by presence
then catalyzed by its contrary.
Noticing absence demands
to first experience presence,
the neatness of a naked wall
otherwise unobserved,
a simple option.
Always, in a room, eyes turned
to the window, what’s behind
my shoulders – whether full or empty - -
to be invented.
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27.
Performance is good
The sequence of the postures
- each work a correspondence –
composed in the simplicity of the gesture.
At night, in front of a mirror-like window
I do verify lines and tangents
the body in tension, as waiting
for the touch of a hand, or a face,
emerging from darkness.
It’s a lie when we pretend not to appear,
the dialogue needs two poles
and words flow, through the body,
the unpronounced ones
as well as those repeated
too many times.
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28.
Staircase
In between, doing and undoing,
so much like my daily experience.
The body paralyzed
unable to descend the stairs
unless mastering darkness.
You told me about light
and obscurity, how un-essential
the latter, defined in absence.
Yet obscurity is effective on the body
more than luminosity. Inevitably,
absence measures the intensity of a
presence,
I-II
Fingerprint (a long letter)i
Memories of the first prayers
bound with Christmas– someone asking
his enemy’s death, someone
asking only for himself.
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Few have eventually left
the creed, for antithetical intentions.
Others keep requesting
kneeling their souls
for the brief time of a function.
In the lift, smell of melting
cheese spreading.
The well-mannered lady, inviting me
to taste, confesses: “I am totally obsessed
with cheese bread”. I refuse politely,
like I have been taught; instead
I would like to yell “I am
totally obsessed with him”!
But praying no, not even
for this love.
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i This poem refers to two works, respectively Fingerprint and A long letter , joining them in onecomposition. Technically these two works belong to the category of the “Experiments”, but tome the performative approach is there prevailing.