Conversations with Blackbody Holes

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A theory. Blackbody + Black Holes = Conversations with Blackbody Holes.

A BLACK BODY is an object which absorbs all light that hits it. When the light is absorbed it heats the black body. The heat is then re-released as light, but often as a different colour than the light it absorbed. The sun and other stars are blackbodies.

BLACK HOLES are stars that have collapsed into themselves. Their gravitational fields are so powerful that they warp space very deeply, to the point where nothing can escape them, including light.

I am reading. Researching. Searching for connections between physics and my own rocks, between energy and beliefs and I come quite naturally to Einstein. For the safety of my own brain, I am reading "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein". It is one thick book of physics.

What I do understand is energy and how it has no skin, but colour, and how this colour can pass through degrees of heat until it shapes it's own universe, absorbs it's own world and emits out.

Like most children I was aware of my own theory very young. I was aware of energy when it walked into the room more than I was aware of the colour of skin that energy held. When these different energies sat at the same kitchen table, I knew something was going to happen and I waited in anticipation. There is nothing more dramatic then sitting in the middle of at least two different cultures watching the room heat until somebody has to yell, or dance. It absorbs everything and transforms.

My family's kitchen table reminds me of the long rehearsal tables in theatre. You never know who's going to show up, where they came from and why you've never seen them before. They are just there, so don't stare, just pass the food. And like that family kitchen table, I wait for things to heat up in the rehearsal room and when they do - when it gets good and hot - it's usually because there are people of different energies and colour sitting at the same table changing the degrees of the space. Is it scientific, or is it art? Einstein would say both and now I would have to agree.

I had the honour to talk to six different artists in our space. Six different women. Scientifically, six different woman of light, coloured by the degress of their art. I feel they have collapsed into themselves and their gravitorial pulls are so powerful they will, or have warped space very deeply, to a point where nothing will escape them.

Guest Editor:
Marie Clements

Marie Clements has been active as a performer and play wright in theatres across Canada and the United States. As a playwright Marie's plays have attracted attention nationally and internationally at Ottawa's National Arts Centre, L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, Minneapolis's Playwright's Center, the International Festival of Native Playwrights in Illinois and New York, The Literature Festival in Germany, and the Women, Text and Technologies Festival in Leeds, England. Her play, The Girl Who Swam Forever, received a staged reading at the Boomerang Festival, La Mousson d'ete, in Pont-a-Mousson, France. Her much anticipated play, The Unnatural and Accidental Women premiered at the Firehall in November 2000.

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