This is an excerpt from Saurian Memory, a live performance from world-renowned Delisa Myles as part of the exhibition Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest. The performance took place at the Natural History Institute on April 9th 2022.
In Saurian Memory, an apocalyptic love story, Delisa Myles creates a new myth set in the not-too-distant, and not-too-improbable future. The scene is set in the time after the great droughts and famines, after the obliterating fires and floods, the mass migrations and extinctions, after the sky collapsed and the rivers ran dry. This is long after endless holes were punched in the earth and all extractable reserves for energy, farming and war were sucked dry. It is after the formidable water crusades, which left planet Earth an unrecognizable wasteland. In the new beginning Earth is a perfect white sphere, a planet of mute ash, or was it snow? Or perhaps radioactive fallout? We can’t know for certain, there were no witnesses. The mythological creature Delisa embodies is Serpent River Woman, guardian of waters and protector of portals between earthly and spiritual realms. She holds the blueprint and memory for all life on Earth, as water is the pilot for all beings.In this dancing myth, Delisa explores the territory and questions….What are the many voices through which water speaks? What are the messages that come to us from the distant future? How can our sorrow and love for the Earth save us? How do we perform sacred Water Rites that honor water as the true carrier and currency of life? How much water is left? For how many people? Who goes thirsty? How many rivers can we live without? Where do the songs of extinct birds go?
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