THE HOLE OPEN IT
THE HOLE OPEN IT is a performance based on one of the works taken from my book "Documentary Self Discovery ".
This poem explores the deep and raw confrontation with an inner force-an entity that exists within the speaker's bones, crying, restless, and unresolved. The central tension revolves around the duality of wanting to merge with this force while simultaneously desiring to be free from it.
It is a metaphor for transformation and memory, particularly the body's forgotten wisdom. The poem hints at themes of birth, rebirth, and the tension between conscious choice and primal instinct. The speaker wrestles with an internal struggle, questioning whether embracing this entity will strengthen them or consume them. The repeated invocation to "open the hole" suggests an urgent need for revelation, release, or even rebirth-perhaps a return to a primal state of knowing.
The performance depicts a battle, a struggle, with a water-covered stage symbolizing memory and the subconscious. The sound art project layers echoes of breathing, water sounds, and heartbeat rhythms to create an immersive experience of inner conflict.
Classical musical elements would convey both the elegance of rebirth and the weight of history.
It is a metaphor for transformation and memory, particularly the body's forgotten wisdom. The poem hints at themes of birth, rebirth, and the tension between conscious choice and primal instinct. The speaker wrestles with an internal struggle, questioning whether embracing this entity will strengthen them or consume them. The repeated invocation to "open the hole" suggests an urgent need for revelation, release, or even rebirth-perhaps a return to a primal state of knowing.
The performance depicts a battle, a struggle, with a water-covered stage symbolizing memory and the subconscious. The sound art project layers echoes of breathing, water sounds, and heartbeat rhythms to create an immersive experience of inner conflict.
Classical musical elements would convey both the elegance of rebirth and the weight of history.
inside me
into me
between my bones
one man
is crying
self seeker
greedy
discontented since birth
road…….
show me…..
take him from me
bring him to me
let him go
let me decide
to merge with him or no
merging with him
will make my uterus stronger
it will enter my ears…
better
it will dig my eye
my eye will learn how to swim inside the stream
and I will eventually acknowledge
why in the first month of my birth
my body knew how to swim
and now
It forgot it all….pain…
take off this endless oblivion
take it off
the hole
open it
the hole
open it
the hole
Open it
Open it.
into me
between my bones
one man
is crying
self seeker
greedy
discontented since birth
road…….
show me…..
take him from me
bring him to me
let him go
let me decide
to merge with him or no
merging with him
will make my uterus stronger
it will enter my ears…
better
it will dig my eye
my eye will learn how to swim inside the stream
and I will eventually acknowledge
why in the first month of my birth
my body knew how to swim
and now
It forgot it all….pain…
take off this endless oblivion
take it off
the hole
open it
the hole
open it
the hole
Open it
Open it.
Performance by:
Mariam Ghalayan, Meri Bayatyan
Composer: Arash Azadi
Curator: Sabrina Bellenzier
Premiere: 03.05.25
Place: Composers Union of Armenia
Duration: 50m
Festival: "The Blue of High Zeniths"
Tbilisi performance art week
Mariam Ghalayan, Meri Bayatyan
Composer: Arash Azadi
Curator: Sabrina Bellenzier
Premiere: 03.05.25
Place: Composers Union of Armenia
Duration: 50m
Festival: "The Blue of High Zeniths"
Tbilisi performance art week
