GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Great Expectations is the second part of the trilogy by Hollow Creatures called "IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY" based on texts by Kathy Acker. The trilogy looks into the theme of identity in relation to the body and memory.

The puppets in Great Expectations are made from latex, which makes the surface very like human skin. The puppets nakedness is studied in a strong play between the puppets and the puppeteers who animate what could be seen as their own S/M game in a closed room, where it is their outpouring of pain which is studied; through physical experiments, and encounters with the other.

Great Expectations blends dreams into a landscape of memories to do with origin and perception of imminent destruction. It is a raw, but poetic simultaneously. It may seem disillusioned; but it also forces a desire to reach a wholeness, a safety through - a humble and boundless respect for the fact that the authentic can never be lived, that truth is gagged just as quickly as it emerges; that we are, each one of us, alone; don't want to be alone, but can't be together for ever, missed.

Near are we, God,
Near and available.

Already grasped, God,
Digging claws into each other, as if
Our bodies
Are your body, God.

Pray, God,
Pray to us.
We`re near.

Distorted by emotion we went out there;
We were out there just to bend
Our asses over abyss and ditch.

It was blood, it was what
You dropped in the gutter, God

It shone.

It flashed your picture in our eyes, God;
Eyes and mouth fall empty and vulnerable, Gog.

We`we gotten drunk, God.
On the blood and on your picture
Which lay in the blood as if the blood was piss.

Get drunk, God,
We`re coming.

Kathy Acker