DAY IX — SELF-GUIDED ROUTINE, MATERIALS & FINAL TYPES

PROTOCOL — WEEK TWO / DAY IX

READING

From Act to Acting:

• Old People, pages 89–91;
• From Profane to Sacred, pages 139–141.

MORNING ROUTINE

The group moved collectively from one exercise to another with little external guidance.

The sequence included:

• Breathing;
• Foetus / Star;
• Cat;
• Tiger;
• Lizard;
• Old People;
• From Profane to Sacred.

The increasing absence of external guidance required the performers to retain:

• collective timing;
• memory;
• structure;
• attention;
• responsibility for transition.

DISCUSSION OF FABRE’S VISUAL PRACTICE

The group discussed materials used in Jan Fabre’s artistic practice.

The protocol names:

• beetle shells;
• dead animals collected from roads and taxidermied for installations;
• sperm;
• menstrual blood;
• Fabre’s own blood used as paint;
• animal organs used in Mount Olympus and obtained from butchers;
• red coral;
• The Acts of Poetical Terrorism.

Preserve this list as material recorded in the workshop protocol.

Do not expand it with additional works or unsupported interpretation during this pass.

This discussion creates an explicit bridge between:

• performer training;
• bodily material;
• visual art;
• animal matter;
• transformation;
• transubstantiation;
• death and preservation.

EVENING

THE TYPE SCENE

The group:

• selected the final types;
• trained the progressive acceleration of the scene.

SOURCE PROVENANCE

WORKSHOP PRACTICE

ARTIST DISCOURSE

VISUAL-ART CONTEXT

Troubleyn CPPM Protocol — Day IX.