Your body cannot gladden me

This Performance was based on the poem

"You shall not despair" by Dylan Thomas

and divided into 3 different parts.

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"You shall not despair

Because I have forsaken you

Or cast your love aside;

There is a greater love than mine

Which can comfort you

And touch you with softer hands.

I am no longer

Friendly and beautiful to you;

Your body cannot gladden me,

Nor the splendor of your dark hair,

But I do not humiliate you;

You shall be taken sweetly again

And soothed with slow tears;

You shall be loved enough."

Dylan Thomas

PART ONE

welcome in the auditorium,

opening the connecting door to the courtyard

the audience is playing golf

PART TWO

Stuffing clothes with apples.

With a peeled apple in the mouth,

parts of the poem by Thomas Dyllan were sung.

PART THREE

The connecting door to the auditorium was closed, and the body of the performance artist thrown against the closed door, while she is still singing parts of the poem.

Photos: Andreas Pashias