ABSTRACT
There is a woman dancing like a jaguar, in a forest setting, and alluding to Olmec cults that celebrated children with Down Syndrome as having supernatural powers. In ethical terms, it articulately asks for a conscious, rational approach to the care that is required by the people who have made it, and by the people they represent, in several ways. Consciousness – or perhaps in another vocabulary, subjectivity – arises from the interplay of the body and other objects, and the experience of the body itself as an object. The person, as an organism coupled to an environment, is impelled to engage in a process. Performance participation can be about the author, but that can be an uncomfortable experience. MADHOUSE offers a diversity of experiences to reflect on and consider, some are beautiful, some puzzling, some should provoke anger, but most allow the reader to watch from relative detachment, as they are guided from one space to another.
