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Jess Curtis/Gravity's (in)Visible
How do you experience a performance? By seeing it? What if that’s not possible?

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October 3-13 2019 :: San Francisco

Tickets + More Info: jesscurtisgravity.org/invisible

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• Video Description: Gerald Pirner sits facing the camera. He is an older white man with long gray hair and a full grey beard whose eyes point in different directions. He is wearing a black shirt, black hoodie, and the background is black. The opening credits read "Gerald Pirner Author/Photographer" and the closing credits provide the show title, dates, and URL listed above.
• Transcript (edited slightly for clarity): "I am Gerald Pirner, I'm a blind author, I'm a blind photographer. I am writing about blindness and perception, writing about dance, writing about art, and writing about a new kind of seeing, a kind of new image of imagination, a kind of vision of going into a new 'visible' and that's the reason why I work together with Jess Curtis and his dancers to become this picture in myself, this new kind of picture, this new kind of seeing with the dance, with the dancers, with Jess Curtis, and with the performance.

This performance opened in me another kind of seeing the room. When the seeing person comes into the room they see a picture of the room, they don't see the room itself. When I go with the seeing person through the room, she talks to me "you see that and you see that and you hear that" and so on but there's a moment where I think there's something wrong. In the 80's there was a punk song by GBH or Anti-System, there was some words "I look at the inside looking out, there's something wrong" and this kind of feeling I remember everytime when I go into a room with a seeing person who tells me about the room, tells me about the things I see or hear, I don't see and I hear only, but developing essentially a picture of the room but something is wrong.

Then with the performance of Jess and his dancers there was a very strange moment sitting in this room talking, hearing the dancers talk, hearing the dancers talk to me, hear the dancers talk to themselves, hearing them telling the things they will do, hearing the things itself they are doing and something moves in the room, moves in myself. And another kind of recognizing the room starts in my head, starts in my body. I become the room, I don't recognize it and I don't perceive it, I just became the room itself, became the flesh between the pictures and the room. This is the moment I recognized in the performance by Jess Curtis."

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