New Lessons on Growing Up and Love Letters Never Written...Again (2011)

This time with a lot more glitter, a one dimensional chair, and Dolly Parton's voice.

 

I remember building a chair as big as I could possibly build to sit atop the biggest thing I could, to see everything that I had forgotten. It was safe and I was complacent  and I needed to be safe. I sat I looked and I said happy birthday, happy birthday death, happy birthday now and here, happy birthday. I sat atop the chair to find the impossibility of possibly pondering a statement posed as a question posed as a a statement, Act without hope, what did this mean for me, you, and the things we never were.

Happy Birthday. we celebrate that disgustingly beautiful thing that has been created , it is life and death made into a sandwich and then we play with it.

It is a moment dedicated to the monument of lives and a celebration of our deaths. Happy Birthday. It is a way to look into the past as well as into the future. It is a time and place where we think about the things we will never do or be capable of doing. It is life and death made into a cake and then we set it on fire.

In order for one to properly situate themselves in a place, they must adjust, let us adjust and we can then reveal what we are not to see what we are. This is an invitation for all to dwell in the quietness of despair as we forget how an infant smiles.

(Yell this part and say faster) All the birthday men fall from the sky remember all of birthday men falling from the sky on that day at that moment, now forget

Watch them fall remember the atmosphere and the presence the shape the sound

(Say this part softer and slower) Do you remember them falling like this, or like this, or like this

Remember growing up

Remember growing old while still young

Remember buying memories

Remember gift wrapping them and giving them to your friends and loved ones

Remember forgetting that

The most inspiring thing I have read lately. act without hope

Imagine one million pink pigs in a massive trench chanting at surprise and horror

Imagine thousands of people flooding the streets against a swaying curtain of helmets and clubs demanding and demanding more

Imagine a single boy  floating swiftly downward from a bridge only to splash into meaninglessness as thousands of parents and their children pointed their fingers at him

 And happy birthday again and again Happy Birthday

Imagine that they all look the same from up here from up on the chair the seated place of complacent intellect.

And happy birthday again and again

The phenomenoa of being here feeling this question lurk and dwell inside  your chest and dance softly like a ballerina then charge like a rabid coyote and just before it mauls your head it bursts into ash and out of that ash is a dragon fly that buzzes awkwardly away.

Do you remember them falling like this or like this or like this?

 

The Set Up, Nicholas & Warner (2009)

A spectacle based and site specific performance in Chicago's Wrigleyville. The characters attempt to move a building with human will power set to a droning theme song