FORMACIÓN MOJANDA FUYA – FUYA (FMF)

FX — microphone on – wide, some reverb

Text partly improvised ... Speaking at mic, hint of a game show host, seminar leader etc.

“(To Techies — they answer ‘no’, mumblings, complaint ...) We right to

go? Good. Welcome, ladies and gentleman. Thanks

for ... um... volunteering this evening. Look, I’d like to allay any anxieties you may have about proceedings tonight by saying that we have conducted the experiment previously on, um ... numerous occasions and I can assure you, you will experience no pain, or ... (mumble/ cough) ... or side effects whatsoever. On the television screen in front of you will appear a number of words in sequence punctuated by the word ‘blink’. I’d like you to consider each word carefully and take the opportunity to blink slowly when directed. This allows for a relaxation of the mind and emotional responses, and assures accurate monitoring — which, by the way, is being done quite unobtrusively by sensors in the seat of your chair. We’ve found this far more comfortable, and frankly, considerably cheaper than cumbersome head-gear and CAT scan apparatus. Before the sequence appears — in fact we can do this now, can’t we? (techies again) — good. I’d like you to take your right hand and place it gently but firmly just above the knee of the left leg of person sitting to your right. Confusing, isn’t it. Good. Now, take your left hand, if you will, and place it in the same manner above the right knee of the person sitting to the left.

When you observe a word on the television which you consider to have positive associations, I’d like you use your right hand to squeeze — again, gently but firmly — the thigh of the person to your right. When you observe a word you consider to have negative associations, I’d like you to use your left hand to squeeze the thigh of the person to your left.”

Now, during the sequence, I’ll be preparing for the next stage of the experiment — which, by the way, is called ‘Predicting Dangerousness’. We’ll be happy to discuss your results with you at the end of the evening. Please focus on each word and make clear responses where possible. Thankyou.”

Video — Therapytexts — TV Therapist — Screen projected/played simultaneously

[Therapytexts — single words, white on a black background, framed in a white border, changing in sequence. Punctuated with the word ‘Blink’ in Blue. A version of a clinical test used to determine psychopathological traits in people, called ‘Predicting Dangerousness’. A list of words are shown to ‘patients’ wired up to brain- scan technology which monitors brain activity in specific regions according to their responses to the words. Here, the list was: “chair/smile/raid/lemon/blood — Blink — seed/raft/table/La Mama — Blink — rape/poor/knife/bath/carrot/death — Blink — 20% off/flood/cut/gun/B&H Aust. — Blink — woman/tree/sink/feel — Blink — rain/slut/run/money/light — Blink — shame/sing/pig/hair/pill/MSAC — Blink — man/ fly/cake/lose/sex/Goundrey — Blink — land/arse/dog/cry/VUT — Blink — horse/ god/bird/dance — Blink “]

[Therapist — Fade up on hands of a man clasped in front of a black suit, red tie … Xfade to the ‘older man’ seen in previous sections: glasses, half his face in shadow, against a blue background. Head, shoulders and hand to chin in the frame. POV audience/camera. He smiles, turns his head to the side in thought, ‘listens’, nods quietly, looks ‘troubled’, quizzical … fade to black.]

Man changes costume through above projections — black slip, black fishnet stockings, blonde wig ... some banter with audience while changing …

Tremor – My Own Butcher:

LX — front chair, overheads behind, red, blue, moonlamp

Finally sitting on back of chair — as ‘Tremor’ — legs together, hands on knees ... no change in voice, just disposition ... quietly, simply …

“I am paid by men to let them put a part of their body into a part of my body. What they don’t know is they are fucking a ghost. They are fucking a ghost because my soul is elsewhere. You could say I have lost my self, which poses an interesting philosophical question. If I have lost my self, how can I sell my self? The answer is I sell my body in parts, some more expensive than others. I am my own butcher. Most of my customers are businessmen with wives at home; they spill a day’s worth of wheeling and dealing into me and I receive it like sewage dumped at the bottom of the sea. Some want to beat me, some want me to pretend to love them, others to be violent with me in a way that would be unacceptable anywhere else. Most want me to pretend to be someone I’m not. Most people spend the whole of their lives pretending to be someone they’re not ...

My most recent customer brought his terrier dog with him — it whim- pered under the bed for the ten minutes it took. After he had finished he said, ‘Are you alright then Duke?’. I don’t know why he doesn’t fuck his dog for free. Sometimes he pays me extra to fuck in his car to the sound of rattling guns — but I survive all the wars they rage on me. And I have never gone gently into those long nights of aftershave, tears, spunk, sweat, beer and skin ... ”

“One always feels great embarrassment at being ‘loved’.”

The Revenger — I Prefer the Car: