(The following document is written in a playful manner … it refers to a foundational body-voice practice I developed over the years sourced from my direct experiences with master voice practitioner Zygmunt Molik, a core member of Grotowski’s Actor Laboratory … I am deeply in debt to his selfless giving … TextWork begats TextwUrk begats Textwrk begats TexTwork begats TextwOrk begats tEXtwork … so it goes …)

With warning

as lightning heralds thunder

love rumbles my heart.

"Textwork” is a practice, not a product.

It is praxis, part and parcel of the critique of the everyday creative life act.

It invites something out of nothing. A source.

"TextwUrk” is not a metaphor, not metaphorical. It is creative work. A passion.

It exists precisely in the obdurate interstice between body and voice.

It exists in the arrow - the connection. It is memory. It is invisible to illuminate.

It is not a set of procedures or perceptions. It is the crisis noise in the system.

It is not the encapsulation or object of the crisis noise or the system.

It is continuous; it is parasitic; it is thetic. It seeks obstacle.

It is of no interest except as cultural residue: it is of great interest to the actor's studies.

It is nothing more than the continuous reification, territorialization and rendering of the actor's work/étude - as if the étude were always already cleansed, available for the taking - as if the étude were already transformed into living action.

“Textwrk” is demonstrative, a demonstrative fragment, an experiment, partial-inscription, partial-object, the automatic prior to its presentation, the linguistic kernel of the pre-linguistic. "TexTwork” is the thetic, the gestural of the demonstrative.

It is the gesture that never quite takes. It is the noise inherent in the gestural.

To “TextWork” is not to produce text; it is to create a study on the pre-level of living action; the irreversible spew of cellular automata is “TextwOrk”, all the better if the rules of vibration, support, range, position, character, voice and repetition are noisy.

The cultural production of “tEXtwork” abjures intensifications, strange attractors & descriptions such as this. The hunt and reception of impulse & association is “TextworK”. Creators on the edge are circumscribed by “textwork”. Malfunctioned psychoanalytics & scatologies are dissolute, partial, always already incomplete: the differend is “Textwork”.

Be wary of the violence of the legible text. Beware the metaphor which institutionalizes, the text which defines, the text of positivities, not negations, the circumscribing text, the inscribing text; beware of the producers and institutions of these texts, whose stake is in hardening of definitions, control, capital, slaughter: Texts slaughter.

"Textwork” slaughters texts.

Raymon Montalbetti

December 02, 2009