Anne Carson's "Possessive Used As Drink (Me)..."

This is a series of videos where Anne Carson reads her sonnets over dance performances. I've been dying to share them. Here's what it's all about:

 “Possessive Used As Drink (Me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets”, a 25 minute performance involving text, sound, and dance (on video) by three dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A&D faculty Stephanie Rowden worked on the sound design and Sadie Wilcox (MFA ‘07) did the video.

Artist’s notes: [The artist is Anne Carson]
” I had to compose a lecture on pronouns for a conference at Harvard and this was the result. I wrote a sonnet sequence, which Stephanie Rowden recorded and made interesting. Then three Merce Cunningham dancers improvised choreography in response to the sonnets. Sadie Wilcox videotaped everything they did and edited it to fit (or not) the sound score.”

Here's the easiest way to see them all in one place.

                                       (Starting after the first video)


The use of light (primarily the lack of it) and the layering echo of the voice are haunting. I listened with headphones the first time and it was hard to snap back into the world after.


Also, here's an index of Jenny Holzer's projections (which I love):
http://www.jennyholzer.com/list.php




-Rachel