Would anyone help me with my colledge proposal?

Hi people,I’m an arts undergraduate, doing a thing called Performance Writing, (don’t ask) and I’ve decided to use the stick in my next project. What I hoped from you beautiful people on HoP was that you could read my proposal and add any comments, as you can see its pretty big and you really really don’t have too. I’m afraid also that its written in this longwinded academic form (you know they would have me make it longer?) but the ideas are clear enough (I hope).I’m trying this because I want the work to have input from the people who helped me make it, and to give others ideas for performance. This online gift economy thing rocks!Anyway, here it is*****Stick is more commonly known as firestaff twirling, but I prefer the name stick as It has a simpler resonance. A good example of stick can be found here https://www.homeofpoi.com/preview2.wmv
. It has become an obsession of mine recently and I want to integrate it into my performance/writing practice.Stick is an amazing operation, one that can be found in any pursuit of perfect integration of body and mind. Dancing, playing pool, throwing a Frisbee can induce a state of conscious like no other, a meditation based on the total absorption of the consciousness into directing the body. It is interesting to note that this state becomes more important and apparent after the physical operation can be accomplished easily, and in fact the perfect action is only achieved when in this ‘no-mind’ type state.A similar state is possible without physical tasks but the action can act as a deliberate trigger, a forcing of the required preparation to achieve the meditation. Please see, Zen and the Art of Archery. (Zen can be summed up as the rigorous systematic teaching of enlightenment)Of course, I want to be using stick in a Performance Writing environment, and I suppose my aim should be to communicate some of what I feel about the stick (this is all very dodgy ground of course) Well, anyway, there is a lot of specialised language built up around staff, that is being actively created by its proponents via the web, please see https://www.homeofpoi.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000006.htmlWith
this language I intend to try a synaesthesia of words, image and body. By creating a poem in all three vectors at once, a spoken rhythm of words that directly corresponds to the actions displayed (for this is a performance art, after all). This poem will kneed a lot of revising, as I must keep in mind all aspects and find the most harmonious fit (why harmonious? Because circles are harmonious, balanced).The ideas for presentation are still uncertain, and I would like some feedback from the group. I was thinking about large scale projection verses live performance of perhaps some combination of the two. I’m not sure I want to install stick, I think it might be better to create an atmosphere more related to the kinda spiritual aspect I’m talking about, or do I want to do it atop a car with a banging custom track blaring from the windows? Maybe this is more festival than poetry. I also intend to engage with the community on the web with this project, post this proposal on https://www.homeofpoi.com
and ask for feedback and advise with the project. I have been doing some writing around this already, and am already working on a Zen type ‘doctrine of stick’, if I want to include this documentation or not, and if so how, is something that I also kneed to consider and would appreciate input about.I’m not at all certain that these two forms will combine easily or happily, but I’m willing to experiment. I see too oppositional forces that kneed to be resolved, the energy of the performance as ‘spectacle’, as outward aesthetic verses the internal nature of language, and absorbing poetry. Do many poets (apart from ‘funny’ ones (Billy Connelly the big (man) exception)) appear in huge bright costumes? Could you hear the words over the suit shouting? This is defiantly a problem, and one that kneads a binding overall aesthetic. Still not sure.But I think the rewards are to be had, this is a captivating art form and has a great potential to be more expressive and less impressive, because it looks good from the outside, but that’s nothing compared to my perspective.Thanks for ploughing through this. JAny thoughts about the proposal or how stick makes you feel would be most welcome. I know it sounds like a lot of art school tripe, and it is, but humour me wink

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