E//O is a contemporary poetic retelling of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth—a memory of a memory of a memory.
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PART 2: GOTHMEETING
WHEN, ONCE UPON A TIME
DID ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE MEET?
was it at CARNIVAL?
was it at a DRONE SHOW?
was it at some BASEMENT?
(((wasnt it at oneofhisshows?))) (((didnt he sing, sadsadboy he was?))) (((didnt he sing? didnt he howl?))) HAIL TO THE DRIFT HAIL TO THE LOST TRUEINHERITORSOFLOSTWISDOM
HAIL TO THE BURIERS
+ THE DRIFTS
ADRIFT
whensoeverithappened that it happened that it happenedtohavehappened
itwasTHUNDERLIGHNGTNTSTRIKE itwasFULLINTENSITYAFFECTMACHINEMACHINE
(((eurydicemadethoseirreversibleandirreducibleeternaleyesatorpheus))) fromthenontheywereconnected drifts a drift on the same oceancurrent +timestempo
ITWASTHUNDERLIGHNGTNTSTRIKE
ITSHOOKTHEARTH+MOVEDTHEGODS
CARVED THE OCEANSANDTHEMOUNTAINS
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2014
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday May 31st, 2014
- Original Url: https://www.facebook.com/eandorfu?ref=hl
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Work Credits:
- Science_Center, primary creator
- Suzahn, Writer
- Lauren Moran, Illustrator
- Blaine O'Neill, Formatting
- Collective: E//0
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Artist Statement
E//O is a contemporary poetic retelling of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth—a memory of a memory of a memory. Following the classical story of love, death, and a trip to the beyond to rescue love, our E//O examines Eurydice’s own decision to go down to Hades. What draws her down and keeps her there? E//O traces our own lives as we struggle to find meaning in a cold dark world.
E//O was quite the labor of love—of pathos, and of eros. Soul many dark and endlesswinterymonths we spent latenighting and, drunk sad-boyz, dedicated to working on this project. The text sat on the desktop of a few deer friends and mine. Months passed before we even considered trying to make a book out of these words.
This is not our first dabbling with the Greeks. Suzahn is constantly engaged in the tragic as a mode of analysis, creation and living. Louis’ undergraduate directing thesis was a contemporary adaption of the Oresteia. Just turn to Anne Carson or Louise Glück to understand the importance of the classics that has taken artists across mediums towards adaptation. Old myths of love, of war, and of love as war resonate with our lives and compel us to examine our own drives towards living, and not.
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