burning through the body

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10'53, stereo, colour, stop motion animation, 2020.

A suite of four looping animations created by Sarah Pupo in dialogue with the poem KOK, by Kristín Eiríksdóttir. Eiríksdóttir voices the soundtrack in its original Icelandic and in English.

Originally exhibited in 2019 as an installation at Trinity Square Video (Toronto, Canada) this project was adapted to a single channel video with the support of a Digital Originals grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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KOK

you wore a black jacket
and I took it off
and I took it off
and under the black jacket
you wore a black jacket
and under the black jacket
you wore a black jacket

and I took it off
and I took it off
black jacket after
jacket took it off

you gave me holes
and I gave you a tooth
on a thread
a ceramic hand
and a storage room
and worn-out tires
and broken beds

you gave me the bottom
from a bottle
and a filter
and ignition
and a song
on my brain
and you widdled
a stick
to sawdust

and a ficus
a yucca a cactus
cats and a house
and a garden
and a statue
of a lion
and bite marks
and a mask
and a kind
of life

I gave you a fountain
and a bullet
for your head
and head
and I tore up some grass
and I ripped up a tree
wove an ashtray from straw
with your mask on my face

a mushroom cloud and detached
green-haired heads
and nails that split
and stagnant smoke

you taught me how to use cutlery
how to tie my shoes
and to think about death
but not mention God

and not and known
and numb and knelt
and nude and none
and knot and neck

I taught you
dirt
and hush
of blood
is
sound

and the hole from an aura
and the mold from a seed
and you are without river
I have a raft
and you are without oars
I have a moat
we sail through
the hole of an aura

THROAT AND THROAT AND THROAT

we collect miniatures of glass
move by a system
argue less than most
but when it happens
when it happens
it happens
happens
tiny little animals
of glass

hands of glass
genitals of glass
clothes of glass
plans of glass
promises dreams
pets of glass
each other´s appearance mirrored
and we blow little lies out of glass
little meaningless lies out of glass
so long as we stare into darkness
it won’t swallow us
so long as our lips
touch an amplifier

the trap opens
as soon
as we look away
we look away

and we let them in
and they move
the decorative vase
and they pull the tablecloth
hide the pillow
cut the duvet
tie a rope
from the sheets
climb
up castle towers
up scalp

and they tell us that we know
not a thing
not a thing
like losing rocks
in a lake
not a thing
not a thing

eye in wood
eye in well
bridge
that breaks
in eye

lips tight
up against the amplifier
listen in silence
but hear
the thump
when it caves
into closeness

I have found out
you say
that heads are hollow inside
hollow and cold
and deep and hollow

but neither of us has a throat
opening
stem
suck

found out
that lumber
means
lonely
felt
bad
lamp
better
soggy
angry
foundation
surrender
cement
leave
grain
come
out-of-body
shut up
white
die

behind the door
there has got to be a den
full of leaves
and shit and shame

don’t pour cups
heat water
ask
say
don’t
don’t look away
don’t look straight
don’t
grasp
listen
know
don’t

more often than not
we played animals
with traps
and got killed
more often than not
but then I stood up
suddenly
that’s why you were shocked

I was playing a man
that’s why you were shocked
because I stood up
suddenly
lit a fire
that’s why you were shocked

the walls can’t be seen from the miniatures of glass
the floors can’t be seen from the miniatures of glass
the ceilings can’t be seen from the miniatures of glass

breathing is movement
be careful
looking is movement
be careful
thinking is movement
be careful

and the miniatures cracked and the system broke
and the movements break and that’s why you are in shock

and the movements break and that’s why you are in shock
and the movements break and that’s why you are in shock
and the movements break and that’s why you are in shock

and when you light up
uncurl from me dissolved
shame breaks the structures in me

AND SO AND SO AND SO AND SO
AND O AND O AND O AND O

and so
layers of paper fell
and so
the meat is visible
and so
it tears a little
and so
all gets sucked out
and so
a body is found
at the same time a child goes missing
and so
nudity becomes natural
and so
unnatural again
and so
the drawing of the body glows
and so
the drawing of the body burns into the body
and so
it burns through the body
then the wildfire
reaches from chin to collarbone
some draw burn marks
and some enter burn marks
and then burn marks become drawings
and so
drawings burn
and so
bodies burn stuck to drawings
and so the ash turns brittle black and breaks
then ash swirls
and so
it buds
and so
it blooms
and so
it climbs
and so
it clings

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