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>>speaking with Robert

speaking with Robert is an intimate dialogue which happened between me and Robert Ashley in “the back yard”.

I mostly cannot catch what he is saying and for sure he cannot catch what I am saying.

nevertheless the dialogue keeps on going and images appear.

where do they come from?

 

I cannot write down the dialogue as it happened cuz I mostly do not understand what he says.

nevertheless you can follow how the conversation deploys by listening to the track with the voice of Rob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBU8vLIJbSE

I start to notice he is speaking to me after a while so I start to answer him only starting from 4’33’’.

You can try to use this dialogue text as a script and read my part to answer to Robert or try to have your own conversation.

 

 

 

no, I ve never seen her

 

R:

 

would like to see you again

 

R:

 

please come back

 

R:

 

would like to see your white ass shaking

 

R:

 

the black point in the middle

 

R:

 

little dirty hair

 

R:

 

sorry I don’t know

 

R:

 

what’s the weather like?

 

R:

 

no I’ve never seen her before

 

R:

 

I would like you too

 

R:

 

did you hear the bird?

 

R:

 

trees are moving

 

R:

 

leaves too

 

R:

 

she leaves

 

R:

 

she skate in the sky

 

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she leaves a track

 

R:

 

I forgot to say something

 

R:

 

what’s the weather like again?

 

R:

 

I guess it’s raining

 

R:

 

my name is Russian

 

R:

 

my face

 

R:

 

it is also more difficult

 

R:

 

try to catch the rhythm

 

R:

 

(laugh) I don t know what we are talking about

 

R:

 

Which secret?

 

R:

 

I’d love to have a microphone

 

R:

 

I’d like to listen to our voice resonate in the space

 

R:

 

my shoes

 

R:

 

touch my bear

 

R:

 

uau

 

R:

 

once again for last

 

R:

 

35

 

R:

 

68 …7

 

R:

 

8+1

 

R:

 

dear no please don’t leave

 

R:

 

how will you go about finding that thing

 

R:

 

the nature of which

 

R:

 

is totally unknown to you?

 

R:

 

how would you write it down?

 

R:

 

I feel tired

 

R:

 

I see what we are doing is tiring 

 

R:

 

what’s the point?

 

R:

 

I’ve seen her coming down the stairs

 

R:

 

she enters in the gallery

 

R:

 

she looks out

 

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there is a big big window

 

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someone is passing 

 

R:

 

he s a man

 

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he has an umbrella

 

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and a grey coat

 

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a black umbrella

 

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it’s raining strong

 

R:

 

she only dress her lingerie

 

R:

 

and rabbits-shoes

 

R:

 

her hair

 

R:

 

the guy looks inside, she seems happy

 

R:

 

she turns

 

R:

 

she shakes her ass

 

R:

 

she looks down

 

R:

 

she puts her hands on the floor

 

R:she looks away from difference and discrepancy

 

she walks on her fours

 

R:

 

she does a piroette 

 

R:

 

he s happy

 

R:

 

he starts to touch himself

 

R:

 

it seems they know each other very well

 

R:

 

I don’t know, now…

 

R: people are gathering in the back yard

 

maybe it’s time to quit

 

R: this is the celebration of the changing of their life

 

there is water inside

 

it’s coming from the ceiling 

 

R:they passed the time

 

she lays down

 

she imitates a dead body

 

….

 

now he comes 

close to her

 

and he starts to massage her

 

as a cat on her shoulders

 

R: I wouldn’t say that

 

the hair are now sweat

 

it is raining inside

 

he takes off his hat

 

the rain comes down from his face

 

and on her face too

 

dled que-aiy

 

something is burning

 

the house is burning

 

the walls are burning

 

they are full of flames

 

the ceiling is collapsing 

 

it goes down

 

down

 

it goes down

 

R: the back yard is the south

 

R: behind dred ignor the constellation rains in the magic of the architecture

 

there is nothing anymore

 

R:maybe that’s a little too much

 

just a very  light light

 

its…

 

it’s a lake

 

a yellow lake of light

R: ……without reality

she slowly get up

 

R: …celebration of changing of life

 

R:…studying her watching her…

 

she starts to dance again

 

R:

 

her hand to the ceiling

 

R:

 

there is no ceiling

 

R:

 

they are falling

 

R:

 

they are turning around each other

 

R:

 

head down

feet up

then down

R: she is so beautiful

head up

 

the hair cover now her face

R:

 

they are both naked

R: this is the hour of the mystery o—-

theirs skin is dry

 

they hug each other

 

R: 2_ do they never rest?

 

they fall as a ball together 

 

R:….made in China they do exactly what they do (alive?)

is there someone watching?

R: 

is there someone who is interested in?

 

there is no more time

 

R:

 

only the falling

 

R:

 

the shoes 

the coat

 

R:

 

they speak at the same time now

 

 

 

they overlap

they lip-sync each other

R:

no i cant’

R:

(laugh)

R:

you speak to laud

R:

I cannot hear you

please speak lower

R:..other idea

I’m crossing your border

R:

I’m becoming you

R:

there is a blue light now

R:

only the red points…

 

(music grows)

 

 

they walk while touching

 

they fall with us

 

nobody is into it

 

the phantom of the light

 

(big crash)

 

 

R:  (monologue)

 

 

(I cannot understand anymore what I say)

 

R: 

 

something else is disappearing

 

R: two

 

one

 

R:

 

nobody’s there anymore

 

R: 3, the twilight

 

the space is empty

 

R: twilight 4

 

only the red points

 

R: 

 

they grow in lines

 

R:

 

big explosion

 

R:

 

implosion

 

R:

 

another light

 

I feel some hitch

 

R:

 

I put one hand in my pocket

 

R:

 

from there I massage my groin

 

R: what’s going on?

 

what’s happened there?

 

R: I’m not the same person what I used to be

ou.

ou..

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