ERMS? - RESEARCH, SCRIPT AND TEXT
August 2020 - May 2021
[THIS TEXT, WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION WITH TASHA HESS-NEUSTADT, REFLECTS THE RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WRITING THAT SUPPORTED THE CREATION OF THE PROJECT ERMS?, WHICH YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT HERE ︎︎︎]
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LITTLE POEM
You, the green screen dream
That has fallen across my screen,
Have brought clarity to things
When I’m not sure what they mean.
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INTRODUCTORY SCRIPT
Welcome Old Friend,
You find yourself now suspended in a digitized universe. Confronted with the vast unknown. You are infinite and the future looks orange. You encounter two multi-beings. They welcome you, sweet traveler. The aroma of pluralities caresses your nostrils, promising the limitless.
Shed your body. Try a new skin. Try as many as you please.
Pluck your answers from the ripe trees of our cybernated land. Allow your new orange companions to guide you through your screen.
Erms is the idea that we are suspended in all swallowing confusion, and yet maybe we make sense of things with our dancing bodiezzzz. Erms is the cyber-self as ever expanding. Erms is this being a live performance but not anymore. Surrender to the timewarp. See you on the other side.
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YOU MUST NOT DANCE
This part is about a story we heard
We thought it important to spread the word
The doctor said that in times like these
To bust a move might spread a disease
You must not dance, you must sit down
At first this news it made us frown
But fear not, dear friends, we’ve found the solution
Which will provide some restitution
Instead of dancing we like freezeframing
We’ve even started rockstar training
Being a pretzel, being a pony
The possibilities are endless, Holy baloney
Perhaps your eyes they may deceive you
For this information does have a dance-like hue
But despite this intoxicating beat
Endeavor to never move your feet
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