https://loveletters.cargo.site DOL Love Letters Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:03:32 +0000 https://loveletters.cargo.site en https://loveletters.cargo.site/Letter_1 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:19:46 +0000 DOL Love Letters https://loveletters.cargo.site/Letter_1 <img width="3000" height="1572" width_o="3000" height_o="1572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/782b7af6aec636cf18703218a3e2c40a8654159b800eb23e40d709cc60ce0490/love-letters-three-petals-ft-Katie_16-9_2.jpg" data-mid="160713610" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/782b7af6aec636cf18703218a3e2c40a8654159b800eb23e40d709cc60ce0490/love-letters-three-petals-ft-Katie_16-9_2.jpg" /> by Alvin Tran (with Wendy Xu &amp; Katie)SUBSCRIBE to View Video Three petals softness plays upon my heart Three barter for the life of the whole You cannot coerce one to kill the other nor denigrate itself The metaphor of the door &nbsp; &nbsp; abiding threshold Tells its story until it becomes a chant The story of the door &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the story of the threshold Repeats until it becomes a key <img width="5680" height="3662" width_o="5680" height_o="3662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" data-mid="156586722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" /> Speak First We should take in its formal center Forms misfiring organize the world Social and detrimental to long life on earth Intention breaking &nbsp; &nbsp; broken &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; thus time passes banal ever-lasting Three marks seal your memory inside me Petals tow strongly east and west A courage of red bisects <img width="5680" height="3662" width_o="5680" height_o="3662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" data-mid="156586722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" /> The moon represents my heart Is the oldest thing ever spoken on earth Is an engine of uncertainty &nbsp; &nbsp; three for all time The sound of my inner children churning Compositionally involved They want music Untouched trees The formal rigidity only a body can produce at will Producing more questions &nbsp; &nbsp; forms Let me narrate some of the recent past: Money is the base of spiritual cultivation Which our emperor has none to begin with All those who seek power are punished by heaven Itself ruled by a father The husband thus sets out to kill the Inner Father The final test is always this Inner Father He has made you hate the soft and wilder things on earth The Inner Father polishes his pearlescent skin beneath the moonlight Bodies become fathers when pushed to their limits You wanted to be good The faceable sum of your hellish parts Your own demilitarized zone that connotes without shame <img width="5680" height="3662" width_o="5680" height_o="3662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" data-mid="156586722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" /> What will I say to the great turtle when he sees me? Not Autobiography Not The Line Running Through It My myth found me later Somewhere between life and death As if speech was always straining in this direction My mist found me open-mouthed on the beach Engorged with air Bent crudely Three petals open to the ignorance of water Living creatures ask one another: So Then, How Do You See It? Men cut up the earth Men cut off their petals <img width="5680" height="3662" width_o="5680" height_o="3662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" data-mid="156586722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffd90363900300f9872746499d4daba54b022d885379ff9f7314f21a6eeed641/Artboard-11-1.png" /> In a story, I make you a promise If my body survives the future Aye Ya If my family survives the future I will teach them to move Three barter for the life of the whole Three moving through time Cut Repeated upon Asked about mine Three forged in time Alvin Tran is a choreographer and artist from Seattle, USA. Recently, he has worked on performances with The Inner Mongolian National Troupe of Song and co-directed the Macau Dance festival. He has shown works in exhibitions including Looking For A Clone at Cherish, Nobody Beats The Odds at Forde, Shanghai Projects at Himalaya’s Museum, Self-Criticism at Inside-Out Museum, and Art Night London. His writing has appeared in New Performance Review and Heichi Magazine. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, Wendy Xu lives in Brooklyn. She is most recently the author of The Past, and Phrasis, named one of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. She is assistant professor of writing at The New School in NYC. https://loveletters.cargo.site/Letter_1-Coming-Soon Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:03:32 +0000 DOL Love Letters https://loveletters.cargo.site/Letter_1-Coming-Soon Alvin Tran's Love Letter will be published in December. 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The Department of Love is a framework to explore love as a mode of resistance, a practice of collaboration and a continuous exercise in empathy.&nbsp; CONTRIBUTORS Announced in October : Alvin Tran (with Wendy Xu &amp; Katie) Rhea Dillon Fette Sans Veronica Gerber Bicecci Announced in January: Dawn ChanYoung-Hae Chang Heavy IndustriesQuinn LatimerKosisochukwu Nnebe Announced in July: Sheena Patel Priya Jay Caitlin Chaisson &amp; Denis Gutiérrez-Ogrinc Miles Greenberg &amp; Vidar Logi SOCIALS Instagram CONTACT Email