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1. 
   peter

   just linking butoh and face-masks.
   these are noh masks, a form of theatre, which butoh stemmed from.
   i’m interested in this aesthetics of internalising.
   i wonder how this mask should/could change with technologies for the same expression.

   May 12, 2009 @ 7:06 pm
   

2. 
   pia

   interesting.
   Masks seem to be cropping up a lot lately.
   Zizek was talking about them. Is Shelley Innocence a kind of mask making?
   Are the becomings of butoh a kind of mask too, but fully integrated in terms of overall bodily state?

   May 14, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
   

3. 
   anita

   I thought that butoh bodily states were the direct and non-filtered product of the interiority of one’s own self/emotions/etc…and masks are a kind of filters….?

   May 14, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
   

4. 
   peter

   yes i think shelley innocense is the the admission that we all need a mask that filters IN the outside media world.
   and she is exaggerating this humourously.

   hmmmmm. this thing about filters croips up a lot.
   The bio filter for example in the post on eco city farm is crucial.

   the filter in my sink to catch scraps. my morning coffee is made through an upward turned filter.

   interesting you say filter anita, in response to bodily state.

   i agree, butoh is the resultant aesthetic of emerging truth within your own body.
   its interesting anita referred to the body as a FILTER, perhaps instinctively.

   Are masks are the mediator of truths through visuality???
   our understandable obsession with beauties. is perhaps indicative of our underlying search for meaning in forms/aesthetics, which usually
   to us younger ones, ends up in obsessions with beauty rather than all aesthetics.

   this is similar to zizeks toilet jokes.

   so what is the BODY AS A FILTER (not)

   what is the function of the mask.

   I want to see the EMOTION FILTER MASK!!! (perhaps for me, a simple one that stops my head glowing red when I blush!)

   Can the body as filter be placed within the system of the kitchen.

   Can we start dancing around rhymically, as our daily breakfast routine emerges…… i bet..

   will my morning coffee pulsate with me.

   hmmm. theres something in this.

   so. skin is the mediator/filter of our internal .
   we train it to act as a mask.
   so if we untrain it…..
   who was talking of this untraining the other day……

   perhaps our instinctive emotions are too strong to unleash on the unwary public…..

   to mask is not just camouflage, but ritual, and role playing. everyday theatre.

   May 14, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
   

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