: : : <<<-------< Black <-----------------((o))-----------------> Arrows >------->>> : : :
First collaborative performance project with Pinealis Glandula. Black Arrows holds the space, singing a poem about the dark night of the soul; the journey through it, towards an ultimate communion/union, as she pierces Pinealis’s chest and arms with 8 needles attached to strings which she gives to the audience.
Each needle comes out with a cut; a bloodletting releasing the old, inviting in the new.
Performed live at Dream States, curated by Non Dual Collective, March 2019.
Biofeedback installation used and most of the sound design and mastering by Pinealis Glandula.
Song and spoken word composition by Black Arrows (Alice Karveli).
Film documentation (incomplete) by Li Yilei.
Something has to give you
back to yourself, Alone
and only
Alone and lonely here, Remotely
clear you hear the call of tongues
the fall of songs eerie
and familiar
But when down shore they
worship the profane, how
can you find the way back
Upstream with no luck
no row no boat you float
adrift beyond the shores that bore you,
that still adore you
You wouldn’t know
the call beyond this wall
of beating crashing waves upon
your memory, your fires now quenched
Abandoned sails
with wails of anguished hope you roll
Down with the currents and out beyond
all you once thought known
to bury yourself in horizon
to find out what’s true
to discover what the deepest part of you
knew
all along
but couldn’t hear it bubble up from Within
while all those voices Without
drowned it out in your mouth
and out of your eyes, back, into your throat back
into your imagined skies at night.
And you’ll grow old and then you’ll find
In the dark night of your Soul, when
you were drifting far and blind
exploding stars danced brighter above than any Sun of Morning.
Until the moment comes
when yearning lands upon the one
who burns in your eyes brighter…
And right before the coming dawn
You are found:
Immersed in Sound
Ablaze and released
into Bliss
Suspended on the Borderline
where union is ultimate Truth.
Something has to give you
back to yourself, Alone
and only
Alone and lonely here, Remotely
clear you hear the call of tongues
the fall of songs eerie
and familiar
But when down shore they
worship the profane, how
can you find the way back
Upstream with no luck
no row no boat you float
adrift beyond the shores that bore you,
that still adore you
You wouldn’t know
the call beyond this wall
of beating crashing waves upon
your memory, your fires now quenched
Abandoned sails
with wails of anguished hope you roll
Down with the currents and out beyond
all you once thought known
to bury yourself in horizon
to find out what’s true
to discover what the deepest part of you
knew
all along
but couldn’t hear it bubble up from Within
while all those voices Without
drowned it out in your mouth
and out of your eyes, back, into your throat back
into your imagined skies at night.
And you’ll grow old and then you’ll find
In the dark night of your Soul, when
you were drifting far and blind
exploding stars danced brighter above than any Sun of Morning.
Until the moment comes
when yearning lands upon the one
who burns in your eyes brighter…
And right before the coming dawn
You are found:
Immersed in Sound
Ablaze and released
into Bliss
Suspended on the Borderline
where union is ultimate Truth.