Proposal for Enchantment
Prepare for the closest of all readings, the reading where we crawl over the text; the intravenous reading, the leaky, intimate encounter with a text that flows into and through, gathering molecules, flavours, filters and frameworks before story and myth fountain out. Prepare for the performance of words of intent, of words of power, of things which slip into speech, of where speech does things beyond gesture.
Here, I will endeavour to make something that does not speak of enchantment, but manifests enchantment, and maybe we’ll find out what it means to be enchanted through the doing of it; and maybe we’ll free ourselves from being enchanted by the doing of it; and maybe we’ll just re-enchant ourselves by the doing of it. As though the word brings on the event, as though the fact of the word is the destiny, as if the act of swapping is meaning itself emerging, as if the swapping is the precondition.
Where does this activation take place? In the neurological flicker that runs from brain to finger, in the reading, or the re-reading, or the re-writing, where the words slip from tongue to lip, from unsaid to spoken, from hiatus to realisation, from precursor to utterance, from nothing to something, from haunting to performance?