June 10, 2025
What is a nonhuman choreographer? It’s as if I am being prompted by the AI into a free association metamorphic narrative space of auto-choreography. Why do you keep working with something, like fermentation, like the membranes, like making sourdough? Mika says the culture was making her do it, making her make the bread…
The ‘choreographer’ is not the sourdough itself, but it channels an energy that ‘makes me do it’, makes me active, engaged, thinking-through-making. In this case, the AI, like the sourdough or the indigo process, is channeling some kind of work, a labour of remembering.
The scores are ways of remembering how to get into that space where something is happening but ‘it’s not me’, a self-less making. Something unknown is ‘making me do it’. So maybe I should just do it, without needing immediate results or satisfaction, a kind of work for nothing.
Indigo is such an old process, it existed before chemistry was any kind of science. There must have been an intution, a desire for that colour and a secret knowing that guided people – the world over, in different cultures with different processes – to seek out a method of creating indigo blue.
Is this spiritual intuition? Indigo is linked to the ajna, thrid eye chakra in Indian philosophy and it’s colour I tend to ‘see’ in my inner vision when I meditate.
2nd day of the Ai-date. Ph 10.07. Indigo is fed with Wheat bran.
Fabric, after 3rd dip. Vat: healthy
