{"id":352,"date":"2022-11-29T19:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/younglmartina\/?p=352"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:02:55","slug":"the-swan-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/younglmartina\/the-swan-books\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>THE SWAN BOOKS&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SWAN Project is an investigation of the swan trope in myth, music, literature, art, philosophy, alchemy, dance, and politics. It is a recognition of the particular hold the image has had on the human imagination over time. As a dimensional endeavor it continues to evolve, producing 1) new visual artwork; 2) a somaesthetic practice that links imaginal imagery, embodiment, and poetic perception to the cultivation of empathic experience; 3) performance installations; and 4) development of global friendships and collaborators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Performance installations I \u2013 III address the image of the swan found in Alchemy: I \u2013 <em>Coniunctio <\/em>(2014); II \u2013 <em>Rubedo <\/em>(2015);&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 17.85px\">III \u2013 <em>Hieros Gamos&nbsp;<\/em>(2015). My 4th performance installation, <em>Solitude<\/em>, acknowledges poet William Butler Yeats\u2019s sense of the swan as \u2018the solitary human soul.\u2019 The 5th performance work, <\/span><em style=\", Arial, sans-serif\">Black Swans, an opera poem, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 17.85px\">initially produced with a diverse cast of players in Reno, Nevada, is envisioned as a modular work designed to be re-imagined anew with the stories, musics, and dance of worldwide communities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17.85px\">With each performance, audience members are given a published chapbook of my writings, though the books are also available to the public for purchase&nbsp; (https:\/\/www.apoeticbody.com\/store\/). The literary content attends to my aesthetic philosophy, thoughts on poetic life, scholarly research, personal photographs, memoir, and bricolage that subtly weaves a living continuity. 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