..."...MY GOD... WHAT HAVE WE DONE..."...co-pilot Robert Lewis of the "Elona Gay", approximately 30, 000 feet above Hiroshima....
..."...NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, ...THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS..."...nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer recalling the words of "Visnu" from the Hindu scripture of the Bhagavad Gita after the first atomic explosion, tested in Los Alamos in New Mexico, known as "Manhattan Project"...some laughed,...some cried,...most were silent...for the future...of mankind...and it's questions...
..."....the strong sustained, awesome roar, warned of doomsday... and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare temper with the forces hitherto reserved to the Almighty ..."...wrote the Manhattan Project deputy director Brigadier General Thomas Farrell...
..."......this is not a pleasant weapon we have produced...a city is ...henceforth... not the place in which to live..."..., remarked the Manhattan Project's metallurgist, Cyril Smith....
...Some words speak of events, ...otherwords, events makes us speak....
...A chain reaction of thoughts from 400BC,...parachute.... down to Hiroshima...
...OUR FrIEND ...THE ATOM ....
...human BECOMING machine, ...and the machine BECOMING... diety .... a god...THE GOD...OUR GOD...
...(what kind of fucked up "god" created THIS HUMAN PROJECT !!!?!!!!...he sure is one nastiey pastiey !!! 
...
The production of ( AT LEAST !!!!!) 70,000 !!!...rapid, disceet and extremely business-like(economical, logical, logistical and reasonable !!!!) deaths ...of a previously unimaginable efficiency in the process of extermination ...one which made Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler look like a "chump" ...!...in comparison...
...OUR FrIEND ...THE ATOM....
...resembling the innocence of a mushroom...
...But for the "hibakusha", ...the bomb's survivors who witnessed this...it did not resemble a "mushroom" ...
...for them it was a living hell...a burning ...on an apocalyptic earth...a collapse...in the end of the world...
...a world where bodies of matter were vapourized, turned to fire and ash...and permanent shadows...in an instant flash of light ...and a searing blast of force, full of heat in hot wind...
...and then enveloped in an eclipse of total darkness...
...A machine developed to address the problem of human extermination, had resolved the moral questions of that extermination,... by removing the burden from the individuals, whose participation in the system and responsibility for it had shrunk ....beyond vanishing point ...
...and into the ambiguity of a bomb as a "innocence" machine...
...then the black sheets of rain ...like so much crude oil in Iraq ...began to fall out ...and stain their shredded, melted skin...indiscriminate...............civilians...
...all in order to save "so many" lives of allied soldiers...and the enemy...this justified....what ?...justifies...
...Contemporary cultures produce myths about themselves,... the strongest media machines produce the most powerful myths...Once the myth is established ...it is difficult to make out whether reality produces the cultural myth,... or the myth reality...
...It is true,...just like in the allegory of Plato's Cave...all life is a series of illusions,...and this illusion is particularly painfull...
...in THE famous words of "Mario Savio"...is the BECOMING(s) of certain windows of opportunity....
...there is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, ...makes you feel so sick at heart, ...that you can't take part...And you've got to put your body on the line,...on the gears,....and on the wheels,...upon the levers,....upon all the apparatus...and YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE IT STOP...!!!!...
...A BELIEF...
...believe...
...THE PERFECT PERFORMANCE ....COULD DISMANTLE A BOMB.....
...(EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM "GOAT ISLAND"'s (a chicago performance group) MATTHEW GOULISH'S BOOK (and my bible ...!!)..."39 MICROLECTURES...- in proximity of performance..."...
...now... for "ARTaud"...and "Buto(h)"...
...Antonin ARTaud's radioplay "TO END THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD" (written two years after the end of World War II and just months before his death), is the heralding of a prophetic warning against an American (and Russian) imperialism (scientific, militaristic, and religious) ...one which sees these superpowers make atoms with the "microbes of god"...
...the theatre ARTaud alluded to in his works,... is evoked in the contemporary Japanese post World War II dance of Buto(h)...with it's mystical and dark physical expression, it acts as an aftershock to the reaction of the atomic assaults borne by the United States with the bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively...
...Hijikata Tatsumi, a poor farm boy from Akita, in northeast Japan was a teenager intending on a career in classical dance when the course of Japanese history was forever altered, and the nation's emerging artists were presented with an indelible opportunity to change a rigid class structure and the attitudes towards the country's aesthetic origins...
...One way to attack the oppressive aspects of social tradition was to rebel against conventional dance forms and enter an artistic substratum that condoned Hijikata's revolutionary ideas..
...By startling an unyielding, class-consciousness into recognizing the presence of it's outcasts, and so-called "non-people" such as the vagrants, prostitutes, whoremongers, drunks, homeless, and the impoverished; ...Hijikata's aim was to expose the underbelly and dark truths that hid underneath socially masked surfaces and throw off the mantle of Westernism in order to rediscover and redefine what it was to be Japanese...
...As the country lay in ruins,... Hijikata's new dance utilised these reprobates' crude physical gestures and uncouth habits such as defecatory stances, perverse sexual gestures and brutally violent depictions of bestiality and buggery to develop a style of choregraphic extremism called "anokoku buto(h)"...
...This interpretation,... in a dance of the soul's darkness,... was to be a direct assault that rejected the refinement, the understatement and classical definition of beauty so valued in aesthetics......
...Whilst buto(h) has metamorphisised within displays of lyricism, gentleness, tenderness, playfulness, humour and romanticism,...it still retains it's dark, grotesque qualities instilled by it's originator....
...The dance of Buto(h) in a post - ..."...the day that changed the world.."... September(9/)11th seems evermore revelant ...one which is a resonance ...and an awareness of human fragility ...in a post-modern and weary age of nuclear weapons, terrorism and social decay...
...on that, one of many fine days in September,.. the hyperreal media machine went into overdrive capturing the most images (EVER!!!...in the history of the world) and the emotions of yet another day that changed the world...in a dejavu...came comparisons of Pearl Harbour...while in the comfort and freedo(o)m of my home i was troubled with a ...THE thought..."is this the karma of Hiroshima ?...and then Nagasaki ?"....IS THIS...?...IT....?...
i will think about it ...and get back to it...in the meantime read me new piece, currently on me website as "no performance-/-roughcopy" or something or rather...it will be called something like "In Praise or Blame ...?- a short history of performance (art) from Plato to 9/11"
...like those poor bastards on a space station or shuttle...or trapped at the bottom of the ocean's seas in a submarine... in the immortal words of the british poet and art critic who was an expert on japanese art "laurence binyon" in his poem "For The Fallen"..."at the going down of the sun.And in the morning....WE WILL REMEMBER THEM..."...
(excerpts from "Dancing and the Dark Soul of Japan:An Aesthetic Analysis of Buto"(h) by "vicki sanders")
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