Alice Evermore Texts
A collection of short texts I have written for various collaborations with artists, musicians, and dancers.
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A Priori
her own room was scented with lavender and beeswax vibrating with a delicate fervour this room was where her many possible selves aligned into an...
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at long last
A text written for a video filmed in night-vision of a girl in a botanical gardens.
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Cosmological Constant
the days will come and go the clouds will evaporate the atoms will split and the birds will scatter * the trees will sigh the continents will drift...
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Dark Matter (Matière Noire)
in the warmth of day in the cool of night in the gardens and in the forest beneath this curtain of skin along this breath of air amid this hurricane...
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disembodied
the dream within the dream the day within the day each place contained a room within a room * some rooms were filled with things presumed to be forgotten
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falling body
thank you for always providing the resilience to go on thank you for granting me perseverance, charisma and the insight to hear what providence has to say
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i'm not dreaming
This text is a dance piece to premiere in 2008.
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lying in wait
A poem written for a photo-book of abandoned places.
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Mare Nostrum (Song of the Mediterranean)
have I not the aeons... to map ruptures in the lithosphere - to quell mighty seaquakes - to behold belts of primordial crust - tossed across the...
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menagerie
there is a certain grey fox dashing through the vacant streets of Berlin, scurrying low along the sidewalks and patches of shrubbery, panting for air our paths cross just before dawn
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Meridians
at 3-thousand feet the night was placid and clear the stillness unbroken upon a vast carpet of nautical miles with light airstreams, the troposphere...
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monologue (for Pygmalion's statue)
This was written for a solo dancepiece inspired by Pygmalion's statue that comes to life.
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morphic resonance
This is a text about inner fears.
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Neomachina
I am the substance - that shapes the essence behold me... I am the intelligence - that explicates the spirit conceive me... I am the empurpled serum...
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On Your Moon
your moon is enveloped by a thick, gaseous atmosphere dense clouds of molecular graphite and coal swell and collide rippling into crystalline,...
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parametric
If I had a coat of arms, this text would be inscribed upon it.
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Remember How We Used to Play
in the upper atmosphere in the vertical climb in the sky above the clouds remember how we used to play in the nautical dusk along the radians of...
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Scorpius
take the minutes from the hour gather the sunbeams from the sky coax the stillness from the night kiss the orchids from my lips and sow them within...
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spellbound
the time that I first looked you in the eye the time that the morning pierced the night the time that I wondered if you were real * the time that we...
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stand clear of the closing doors
Entering the 96 Street station, I take the Lexington Avenue local downtown.
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terra incognita
This is a text about fate.
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the deep now
I can sense you… Here Within this static place Where time seems suspended. I can feel that you are somewhere nearby Though I do not believe we have...
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the devil knows
who was that back there… amongst the trees moving through the dawn that illuminates the verge of being though all was still so dim and vague in the garden of pre-consciousness
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The Ends of the Earth
I used to sense the future as a vast, temporal space like the open road on a highway - an immense uncharted land of chronological kilometres into...
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the heavy atoms
the perpetual motion machine the game of chance the problem with the stabilizers the distances we are incapable of perceiving the spaces we can never hope to measure
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The Intangible Self
You are the enchanted elixir Flowing through the vessels Like a molten ghost You are the perpetual verge between past and future, the margin amid...
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The Syllabus of Disappointments
Optimism appeared from behind a great cedar with a sparkle in her eye — clad in a regency gown and a feathered toque arm-in-arm we walked across the...
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The Underground River
beyond the optic chiasma just above the precipice of the spinal cord there flows a stream - a stream awash with neurotransmitters noradrenalines and...
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the visitor
one day you made the morning azure you made twenty-three degrees Celsius taste like fresh-cut lawn and orangeade you gave the breezes that drifted indoors up the staircase
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vanishing point
it’s because when I was small I used to pretend that I could pluck the sun from the sky and hold it inside my first. it would be warm and juicy between my fingers
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vessel
This was written for a video piece with 3-D geometric animation.
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visitation
This was written for a photo-book of concentration camps.
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we pass away
when the past and the future tug upon the present moment with delicate, unrelenting arms when ambition overreaches talent when dull-dark sunshine...
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white matter
Musings of an android in the not-so-distant future...
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