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Sawako Nakayasu

capped and sizing it prenaming it detouring it wondering if it will do it streamed and lining it blocking the off of it shining it on it or through it going with it to the end, have it having given it having likened it having depicted it having gotten used to it using it having used it the use of it factoring in the using of it the last of it. sealed and forgotten it. followed it to the end of it at the heart of it. at the head of it the start of it the end of the start of it the end of the mid of it the end of the ending of the last closed and firm end of it to end it. and end it. the continuing end of it. the newness of each ending for it and to it and with it. the result of it or the less of it the non-effective go of it. the life of it. not. the life on it. not. the life near it. affirming it confirming it adjusting it. presuming it and to be it or to resist it. time and it again. relationship between preceding consuming it. time and it again and it. the go of it. the last word of it. the heavy it. the mal- adjusted it and might as well be it. but it is not it. the capped and city of it. in open air it. unabashed it. should have perhaps taken it in. the how of it, comes haunting forth and it. concluding with it. blending it in yes. as a new color yes. the turn of it. the left of it and I can’t stand here any more holding and holding it its tenuous and overspeeding crumble of it mass of it the volume of it louder than my arms can handle it can’t handle it not much longer unless it

Improvisational Score

This performance may take place over any duration of time, from zero seconds to many many years.

A number of insects are placed in a clear container so that they are as comfortable as possible, given the circumstances. They are given oxygen and food and water, though they may not escape. The container of insects is placed on stage and a light is directed through the container and projected onto a large screen so that the audience may see the insects.

Each musician chooses an insect, and plays accordingly.

Sawako Nakayasu

2014

Battery

We get lost in the desert, lost very lost, and although we aren’t going to tell anyone that we can’t possibly be any more than two miles from civilization, the fact remains that we are lost very lost in the desert very desert, and the car very car is having a hard very hard very hard time getting started up again, and so we kick it very kick it in its ass very ass and the car is still having a hard very hard time and we are feeling lost all the more lost very lost in this desert very desert, and there is no one around us no no one very around us at all very all and there are birds very bird

Sawako Nakayasu

2014

Ant as a glass of water

They ask and I say no because I figure they are unlikely to accept my answer anyway but they insist on an answer so I say fine, I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you that when I grow very old I would like to become a glass of water. No no you must continue to be human. See, I told you I didn’t want to answer. No, please. You must continue to be human. But why. Because you are one now. All the more in my old age I would like to be a glass of water, I’d make such a nice glass of water, don’t you think? So useful, so desired. No no you cannot be a glass of water. Fine then I’ll be an ant.

Sawako Nakayasu

2023

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