Until Something Definite Happens

Then, again (with abandon)

  Then, When Once (raw track) by bethanyides
  Jessica Preamble by bethanyides
  Already in the Hole (raw track) by bethanyides

HALF/ DOZEN GALLERY PERFORMANCES

photos by Jeffrey T. Baker

TO DO:

- sew flesh sash
- fill chamomile snakes w/ harder guts
- attach army blankets
- pad torso shields
- more scabs on red snake
- collect rocks
- record pounding

Long, lonely (within/ without)

Lonely Rivers Call by bethanyides

Bird/ Dirge by bethanyides

(excerpted tracks from "Part I: From Whence Undone," overture played during audience entering & sitting, & again while exiting)

where we set up camp

What's important is you can pretend about things and dream about things that you don't completely understand.

productivity

relentlessly

leapt up and off from the whole, 

their limbs unstuck, hands and feet 

in sky in glow

remembered as if hasn't happened yet

that extends from the innermost

semblable of salt

restored from her seas

…
Socrates tells the story of Thales, who was by some accounts the first philosopher. He was looking so intently at the stars that he fell into a well. Some witty Thracian servant girl is said to have made a joke at Thales’ expense — that in his eagerness to know what went on in the sky he was unaware of the things in front of him and at his feet. Socrates adds, in Seth Benardete’s translation, “The same jest suffices for all those who engage in philosophy.”

…

- Simon Critchley, 

NY Times Opinionator Blog, May 16, 2010

see-through

Perispirit (Receivingness) from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

(floodlit)

Floods from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

Fell Into the Ground (Rescue) - song sketch

Fell Into the Ground (Rescue) - song sketch from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

excerpt from The Way Birds Become

I felt a bird had come true.

*

The possibilities you tear out of
a bird never precludes that I can see you from
underwater, like baby Jessica at the bottom of
the well, looking upward at the glimmer that used to be
the world. If a bird sees you there
it looses voice. And this we both know.
You knew that silence could be as comforting and full
as an overstuffed pillow. If you lay down
a bird, you both fall asleep
though the longer you lie, the less
I can see. The longer you stay with a bird the older it gets,
hair silvering.

I see no possibility beyond this bird, its
wings as saggy and old as a friend
unrecognizable after a long separation.
Like a longed for presence, and so easily
taken for a wolf, the bird is mere conjecture
from "pieces of the past arisen from the rubble,"
made to make do. Its flashing still causes a
trembling in every swoop of annual return.

                                                                    - Joseph Bradshaw

sketches toward

O/Doe sketches toward Children Get Stuck Places Underground from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.

The Long Hours of Waiting

Moon in June

Children Get Stuck Places Underground will have reached its resolution by June's full moon, 2010.

If you are not already planning to attend the Advanced Ultrasound and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Course offered by the European Society of Radiology at this time, your presence is warmly and waterily requested.