12.04

The last post presented the problem of how structures, like language, or history, or reason, mediate the experience of an object and allow a person to communicate that experience to someone else. The limitations inherent in this strategy are met on my part with a certain amount of frustration.

In thinking about how to resolve this problem I happened to attend a Coney Island themed drag show at the Working Men's Club in London, Bethnal Green. The final act was a performer from Finland named The Baron. His relationship to objects was simple: he inserted them into his body while we watched.



He began by hammering nails into his nose.

From there he took two weights, each attached to a chain with a hook.

Using the hook, he suspended the weights from 3 locations:

1. A piercing in his nose

2. A piercing in his ears

3. A piercing in his nipples

4. His eye sockets








Witnessing these actions and sharing this experience of an object, all I could think was "This is where language leaves me".
Writing about it now is merely a residue, a report back from the singular field of experience.



pictures provided by Ayesha Moarif




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