Gilles Pastor | Kastôragile | I walk in this garden

Création le samedi 22 octobre 2011
à Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New-York (Usa)
dans le cadre de Walls and Bridges - Saison 3
proposé par la Villa Gillet et Les Subsistances, Lyon (Fr)

Performance de Gilles Pastor

Avec la complicité de Keith Collins
Collaboration artistique et montage vidéo : Vincent Boujon

D'après des images de
The Last of England (1987)
et The Garden (1990),
films de Derek Jarman

Le poème "I walk in this garden" est extrait du livre "Derek Jarman's Garden
(Thames & Hudson)

I walk in this garden.
Je poursuis mon chemin à travers l’œuvre de Derek Jarman*.
À ma demande, Keith Collins, collaborateur et compagnon de Derek Jarman, m’envoie à Lyon un red packet : combinaisons de travail de Derek Jarman.
J’ouvrirai ce paquet lors de cette performance.
Gilles Pastor

* Derek Jarman, cinéaste anglais mort du sida en 1994,
il s’est battu à Dungeness (Kent, Uk) contre les vents marins pour faire pousser un jardin à l’heure où son corps s’étiolait.

on 22 October 2011 at 21h00
Walls and Bridges | New-York [US]
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I walk in this garden
holding the hands of dead friends.
Old age came quickly for my frosted generation,
cold, cold, cold, they died so silently.
Did the forgotten generations scream
or go full of resignation,
quietly protesting innocence?
I have no words,
my shaking hand cannot express my fury.
Cold, cold, cold, they died so silently.

Linked hands at 4 a.m.,
deep under the city you slept on,
never heard the sweet flesh song.
Cold, cold, cold, they died so silently.

Matthew fucked Mark fucked Luke fucked John
who lay on the bed that I lie on,
touch fingers again as you sing this song.
Cold, cold, cold, we die so silently.

My gilly flowers, roses, violets blue,
sweet garden of vanished pleasures,
Please come back next year.
Cold, cold, cold, I die so silently.

Goodnight boys, goodnight Johnny,
Goodnight goodnight.

Derek Jarman (Derek Jarman's Garden)

(Derek Jarman)