'Does the text have human form, is it a figure, an anagram of the body? Yes, but of our erotic body. (...) The pleasures of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas – for my body does not have the same ideas I do.'


Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

'En dag brænder vi igennem til et tegnsystem baseret på konkret sansning. En anden måde at trække vejret på.'

Her til morgen har jeg læst Inger Christensens 'Brev i April' for at vaske nattens mareridt væk. Og fordi det er svært at stoppe med at læse digte når man nu først er gået i gang: Morten Søndergaards 'et skridt i den rigtige retning'.


Morten Søndergaard kan godt lide at gå. At gå i ørkenen og at gå i sproget. For tiden går han rundt i Sahara inde på Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Morten er vel noget af en mester når det kommer til at udstille det sprog, han selv vandrer rundt i og jeg kan lide hans vandreture i alle former:


En lastbil proppet med sprængstof kører igennem det tiltagende mørke. Ordenes bilbomber. Mennesker smadrer mod hinanden som flasker. Det må holde op. Nu hvor alting fryser til, er det af største vigtighed at holde ild i
sproget.
En dag brænder vi igennem til et tegnsystem
baseret på konkret sansning. En anden måde
at trække vejret på.

'When we breathe, we take in the oxygen we need to live, but we also acquire at the same time the air necessary to form words, and these are sent fort, when we exhale, in the same way that the lion growls or the hyena chortles. Breath (pneuma) has always been seen as a sign of life, and was once identical with the soul. Don't fall for phrases like 'gut feeling' or 'coming from the heart'. Language is born in the lungs and is shaped by the lips, palate, teeth and tongue our of spent breath - that is, from carbon dioxide. That is why plants like being spoken to. Language is speech before it is anything. It is born of babble and shaped by imitating other sounds. It therefore must be listened to while it is being written.'


William H. Gass, 'A Temple of Texts'

gagagender

'Genders can be neither true or false, neither real or apparent, neither original nor derived. As credible bearers of those attributes, however, genders can also be rendered thoroughly and radically incredible'

Judith Butler: Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions.