They Are Here Now
I stood in front of the audience, wearing Nike Cortez shoes, and read a text that began with a description of the marabou stork, continued with Hernán Cortés’ violent conquest of the Aztec empire and chocolate exports to the Spanish upper class, on to the launch of the “Cortez” shoe in the colour “Sail-Cacao-Wow-White”, to my grandfather’s poor upbringing in Småland, and on. For each paragraph I finished reading, I repeated a word from the paragraph. After the next paragraph, a new word was added to the previous one, and the line of words became longer and longer. When I finished reading, the choir, hidden in the audience, began to sing the repeated words in an improvisation, leaving fewer and fewer words. The last word sung was ‘WORD’.
They Are Here Now
I stood in front of the audience, wearing Nike Cortez shoes, and read a text that began with a description of the marabou stork, continued with Hernán Cortés’ violent conquest of the Aztec empire and chocolate exports to the Spanish upper class, on to the launch of the “Cortez” shoe in the colour “Sail-Cacao-Wow-White”, to my grandfather’s poor upbringing in Småland, and on. For each paragraph I finished reading, I repeated a word from the paragraph. After the next paragraph, a new word was added to the previous one, and the line of words became longer and longer. When I finished reading, the choir, hidden in the audience, began to sing the repeated words in an improvisation, leaving fewer and fewer words. The last word sung was ‘WORD’.
