The Peyote Dance

Artaud. I went to a movie about Collette, an erotic author who 'studied' w/ Artaud. A woman I knew was there, She sd something like "Who was that asshole?" - referring to Artaud in a scene where he drilled "The Theater of Cruelty" into Collette. Ah, yes.. another reminder of the dominance of 'merican ignorance. Who, indeed, was "that asshole"? Uh, someone associated w/ Surrealism, an influential poet & playwright, an actor in both a movie about Joan of Arc & one about Napoleon - y'know? Not quite yr ordinary guy. A guy who visited the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico in 1936 to participate in their Peyote rituals. I've taken peyote. It's an important thing to do. ONE THINKS LIKE A PLANT under its influence. I put down roots. Artaud was an show more explorer of outer fringes of human consciousness. He probably wasn't the easiest guy to get along w/. But he was THERE when the rest of the idiotic bourgeois world was NOWHERESVILLE. On the back of this bk it's called "Anthropology" - that's true enuf. I call it "Philosophy" here. That's true enuf too. Like so much that I'm interested in, it's not so easy to say its one thing or another. Artaud was alive, at his own risk. Beyond that.. who's to say?! show less

(Spanish Edition)

> « L'émulsion infinie du cœur est ce que le Mal a voulu tuer dans les mondes, mais dans cette émulsion il y a beaucoup de replis, et d’épaisseurs, et de substances et de trames, et chaque épaisseur est une idée, et l’idée un état du cœur, et un être avec son âme, et chaque état du sensible une substance sortie de Dieu, et la Source de toute Substance, ce Cœur Donnant, Distributeur de substance d’être et qui donne sa substance à l’Être dans le Multiforme et l’infini. » —Antonin ARTAUD,
Voilà qui me semble assez joli parce que l’on dirait une citation d’une incantation de science-fiction alors qu’il s’agit d’un extrait d’un texte d’Artaud sur les Tarahumaras. (Vincent Ravalec),
in: Nouvelles show more Clés, (28), Hiver 2000 show less