Cephalonegativity

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Cephalonegativity</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> reads like Beckett's Play (with M reprised as an even more slippery version of himself) or Not I as if performed by the secret society of Acéphale. Archaic turns of phrase and elision combine with post-cinematic headlessness to produce a stage play that plays with stages and stages play a lesescenario from the velveteen tongue of an heretical zealot its phrases as if slurped up off an abattoir floor or off the rotted walls of a theatre-cum-poisoned-amniotic-sac where the performers have all become kuroko. Read out loud at speed in honour of its progenitors the words turn into chunks of hot pomegranate meat in your mouth-turned-anus with your gills agape your mutinous soma exsanguinated levitating above you your head on fire singing like litel clergeon from the catacombs.</span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gary J. Shipley author of <em>30 Fake Beheadings</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In pursuing a theatrical treatment of the Self's head and body and self-selves through a Bataillean notion of headlessness through typographical humor and rupture through a Dada-esque document of volatile mirror-pages and chorus Cephalonegativity makes of itself a gaping gesture: a neck-stub that is a mouth that is singing out and commenting on the ritual of being present. The reader dials in via a rotary anus and watches a body hanging as a tail in its coprolalic spooky plastic underwater gloom psychedelia cum outer space inside of a mouth cum cult orgy. DO/ YOU SEE THE END OF TIME? THE APPROACHING/ WALL? WHEN THE THEATRICAL BECOMES THE/ APOCALYPTIC? ENACTING A DISTORTED REALI-/ TY AS THIN LAYERS OVER THIS ONE? This text is a porous fabric through which we might </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>perform</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the wound of the stage as we </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>watch it rot</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span><strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Olivia Cronk author of <em>Womonster</em></strong></p>