Performance Art - Hot Water Rising

This piece is a short story transformed into a satirical speaking performance. It is codified in the police radio alphabet and a reverse order alphanumerical sequencing code. The story, without giving away too much, is a metaphor describing how the gradual and ceaseless intensification of crisis and trauma in the global events that are our contemporary past and present, are progressing in a way and presented in a way that prevents society from sensing the increasing urgency of crisis. Things appear to progress laterally when they are in fact at a steep incline..

There are certain biological features in ectothermic animals that allegorise this ability to subsist in an ever perilous environment. But as it's danger increases at a controlled and gradual rate everything is thought to be fine right until the moment of annihilation, at which point there is no recourse... In a world where we wade unawares in hot water rising this is where we will end up... and it will be oh so unbelievable when that final fatal moment appears, even though it's been maturing and engorging in front of our very faces, but we just 'never saw it coming'.

And the big question: Why? Why are we numb from the ever intensifying and ceaselessly shapeshifting narrative of relentless crisis in our world, that seems to have no upward limit? Why can't we sense the never-ending increase of the trauma in our world.. Are we ectothermic to crisis ? Do we only regulate our perceptions of crisis and trauma externally as a frog does it's core temperature? Maybe so... And if so would it follow on that through the emotionally emancipated mass mediation and constant graduation of increasing doom, we no longer perceive crisis as an event that phases through levels of trauma and urgency, but receive and interpret it as a monolith of trauma statistics or as an abbreviation alike to disasters which have come before, therefore appearing homogenous, trivialised or somehow not pressing as it is no-longer immanent or unprecedented.

This video might scare you, but the world we live in scares me.. and I think that it should scare you too if you see what I'm seeing..
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