Qualia/World (Upd: Oct 23, ’22)

“Butoh…plays with perspective. If we, humans, learn to see things from the perspective of an animal, an insect, or even inanimate objects, the road trodden everyday is alive…we should value everything.” – Tatsumi Hijikata¹

Qualia can be thought of as the root of every segment of experience, connected with sensory interpretation. Items in nature, for instance, a stick or a rock, will feel very different from each other. True or not, qualia can be thought of as the inherent properties of experience that can be accessed through introspection alone. Qulia shares a parallel with spirit.

It is not enough only to feel and move the body. We must also enter a world. A world adds color, clothes, and flavor to our naked feelings and movements.

FEEL IT. MOVE IT. WORLD IT.

Lafran Art

Qualias are images, but not just any images, multi-dimensional images that go beyond the visual channel, and imply all sensory fields such as audio, touch, feeling, etc. (see the 8 channels below). Hence we can say qualialization instead of visualization. Qualias are multidimensional image-worlds, e.g. fish world, mosquito world, laundromat world, soap bubble world. Another word for qualia can be q-world or q-spirit; q can be anything. Yet there is an entire personal world attached to it.

And when WORLD = BODY, there can even be any q-body-world, e.g. water body-world, ash body-world, vine body-world, paper body-world.

Tatsumi Hijikata’s choreographic units (CUs) are basically the same thing as qualias. Kayo Mikami said of Hijikata’s CUs, “[they] are ‘realization of inevitability’ or ‘what make things exist that could be found after an enduring and deliberate observation.”5 The definition is strikingly close to the idea of qualia.

When a qualia enters into the body, the result is an affect, which contains feeling, sensation, and movement-potential. Persons, places, things, or ideas are all qualias we can resonate/transform with. Qualias are the fuel to the becoming. Qualias are something to become. Qualias are also the fuel of the mind-body. In Antonio Demasio’s theory of mind (and he defines “mind” as the symbiotic brain-body-environment conversation), he claims, “Image is the currency of the mind.”16

Similarly, in Andre Bernard’s note on ideokinesis, the image is the bait and the fish in the central nervous system. The central nervous system will send the signal to a specific set of muscles to engage in movement and efficiency of movement will be the natural tendency. The movement will happen automatically when the image is the facilitator of the movement. The movements will tend to be richer than if we engaged movement voluntarily.17 This is idea behind the butoh motif of being moved. Qualias move us.

The Grotowski-inspired guide Stephen Wangh has noted, “the more power you invest in your images, the more they will feed you, and the less you will have to do.”24 

Via qualias, we transcode/translate the environment to the body. We embody the environment. Because qualias are endless, any and everything can be embodied. Philosophy, business, chores, smell. This is body transcoding or becoming-a-qualia. Once something is transcoded, then can begin the further development of fermenting/editing/remixing.

There is also something important to note about becoming-a-qualia. Let us say that we enter into a becoming-earthworm. It is not that we will superficially look like an earthworm, but what would the spirit of the earthworm do if its body were expanded to that of a human’s?

Figure 1. Qualias are all multi-resonant
Figure 1. Qualias are all multi-resonant

Furthermore, when we transform, there is always a Reduction and Regeneration, which is connected to qualia because there is always a loss or gain from the starting qualia whether we, for instance, begin with human walking, talking, or emoting. Human walking to crab walking may imply a level and human reduction, yet a gain in agility.

We must break free from our human conditioning (our domestication). Every time we engage in social conduct limiting our body, we reinforce that very qualia. We must feel more qualias outside of the limited scope of the modern human. We must allow ourselves to slip into the world of anomaly.

All qualias are by nature multi-dimensional and rhizomes. Rhizomes are networks like the roots of bamboo or grass. It’s a vastly connected entity that has endless connections. Cutting any one part of the connection only allows for re-routings. Qualias and signifiers work in the same manner. One qualia breeds endless other qualias that interlink into an endless rhizome of associations.

Similarly, qualias are haecceities, an individuation that is always multiple like a haiku or any excerpt of an endless pile/rhizome that gets labelled under one thing.

When the butoh dancer allows a qualia to enter the body (qualialization as opposed to visualization), it’s not that there is mimicry of literal form, but the listening of as many associations of the qualia as possible (memories, similarities to something else, dreams, etc.) If, for instance, we go into the qualia of feather (Figure 1), there are so many other secondary qualias that may flush into scene. These may link together as well. The play of qualias within a qualia is to be allowed. Tatsumi Hijikata expresses this with a line in his butoh-fu entitled Flower Nerves: “When you express a flower, it is based on its smell, the pollen and its entire atmosphere.”14

Don’t get lost in the shell. Go underneath (to the other shells/signifiers). Though one can shape one’s physical body into the image immediately, that may serve as a beginning spot till there is actual imagination or fermentation. Consider, too, not starting there. Consider that the generally-associated form is incidental, happening only by accident after following the play of qualias underneath one chosen qualia.

What may make an embodied image/narrative authentic is the ability to surrender oneself to that image/narrative.

Exercise: Object Resonance

Pick any physical object as your new dance partner. Experiment with interactions. For instance, if I choose to resonate with a large stone, I will resonate with its texture, temperature, and weight distribution as I carry it around different areas of my body. I may discover new tricks or ways my body compensates. For a very detailed list of visual object resonance, see perception.

Qualia Time(s)

In Pellegrini’s research on sense amplification and its affect on time, he suggests that the butoh performer may develop the ability to feel overlapping and evolving times (temporalities) acting at the same time. He gives the examples: “the tempo of the body, the plastic skin [a prop used], the studio, the tempo of the music, and that of the silence; […] the tempo of the air con units, of the natural light, of the temperature and the odour of the room and body.”26

We may then see that each and every qualia can come attached with its own time. How does each qualia change our body timing, whether as a whole or as parts? We can also say q-time; q can be anything, e.g. tree time, frog time, ice-cube-in-hot-sun time.

Contemporary Metaphor Theory

“Whatever is, is a thing.” – Kotarbiński20

In terms of contemporary metaphor theory, qualia is in resonance with what Aleksander Szwedeck claims is the most elementary image schema, or the image schema that lies within all or most image schemas: OBJECT.21 Image schemas to Lakoff and Johnson are “recurrent patterns in perceptual-motor experience that derive from our bodily interaction with the physical world.”22

Anything this object/qualia does also turns the qualia into the image schema FORCE.23 Strings are a good metaphor of a type of force image schema, specifically that of attraction. Qualias act as attractors/possessors.

We can consider that OBJECT = FORCE.

Like so many other image schemas, we are bombarded with this schema at all moments of our lives.

8 Channel Model

Rhizome Lee breaks down varying qualias into 8 channels (each very general qualias themselves), which all have an extrovert and introvert quality to them. The introvert (deeper) qualities of a channel are always the subbody with the possible exception of the thinking channel. Thinking serves to take somebody away from the subbody, unless it turns against itself like an autoimmune disease and becomes fuzzy, dream, or absurdist logic.11

Of course, one can imagine other channels such as smell, taste, body’s sense of where it is in space (proprioception), and sense of balance (equilibrioception). One channel may also provoke another channel, and the contents of one channel can bleed over into another channel, e.g. sharp pain (body channel) can be visualized (visual channel). This happens because each part of the channel is already multi-resonant and dimensional.

Body

Physical sensation, e.g. warm, itchy, heavy. For a larger list, see Felt Sense. A deterritorialized/completely reduced body is a corpse, which is a popular butoh motif. See vaporizing below.

Movement

Various movement patterns such as line, circle & figure 8, sway, vibration, shock/shakes, and collapse. An example of deterritorialized movement is when the body appears frozen, but the imagination, emotion, audio, etc. is moving. Or any specific form of movement can be deterritorialized, e.g. a line will have noise and have wiggles.

Visual

With eyes open, various sizes, colors, and shapes are experienced in the environment. For a complete list of varying ways of seeing, see Perception. The deterritorialized visual channel is when your eyes no longer see but they implant themselves somewhere else, e.g. within the body, above you, or transforming into another sense such audio, e.g. the visual qualia residual that is a bat’s echolocation. The visual channel is also eye world, eye qualia-body world.

Audio

All those things heard or spoken, voiced, or sang. See section on audio here. An example of deterritorialized audio is the silent scream or a talking foot. The audio channel is also mouth and/or ear world.

Emotion

See section on emotions. An example of deterritorialized emotions are corrupt or inappropriate emotions. For instance, one will feel tremendously depressed as one engages in jumps of excitement. This channel can have deep correspondence to weather. This channel can be viewed as inner weather world.

Human Relationship

Relationship of another human activated through visual, audio, movement, or feeling of another. This channel is also opened with co-body. A deterritorialized human relationship channel may link two characters (chimera, see below), into one’s own body and experience the interaction, essentially playing with the idea of a cobody within the individual subbody.

World = Self

Where the “who” and the “where” are unified as one. Rhizome Lee explains:

“When you are at home, your self image is as a family member – father, mother, daughter or son. When you go abroad, the world becomes a foreign country, and your self image shifts to that of a foreigner. When you meet a girlfriend your self image becomes that of a boyfriend.”12

An example of a deterritorialized world = self channel is when you turn into a fish when you’re supposed to be a father taking care of his son.

Thinking

World of thought, logic, and judgement. An example of a deterritorialized thinking channel is when logic feeds into itself and collapses (such as is the case with cognitive dissonance). Thinking is koans (see below) is deterritorialized thinking.

Note: One could take each channel further and create a meta-8 channel under it. There is also a center called non-dual. In that center, all these differentiations are all blended together. Distinction no longer applies there.

Exercise: Channel Contradiction

This is a stacked body/2 channel dissonance where we pick two channels that contradict each other. For instance, let us say that we enter into the qualia of inflated balloon. We might enter through the audio channel and make the sound of something full, but then this might be contradicted by entering into a collapsed movement channel.

Qualia Sceneries

“Be immersed in existence . . . as a bird enters the air.” – Jerzy Grotowski9

Create a multi-qualia scenery of which a subbody or cobody is to fill. For instance, if we are to open up a camp fire scenery with cobody, then one or more individuals are the logs, another the fire, and another the smoke. The same is possible with the subbody, explained in the following part, Chimera.

To Deleuze and Guattari, a segment of haecceity (experience, individuation) in life can be noted when space and circumstance are inseparable from the thing, animal, or person. “This should be read without a pause: the animal-stalks-at-five-o’clock. The becoming-evening, becoming-night of animal, blood nuptials. Five o’clock is this animal! This animal is this place!”10

Chimera Demon Haborym of the Ars Goetia

Chimera

The chimera takes on more than one qualia within different parts of the body. For instance, the arms can be tree limbs while the legs are rooster legs. Chimera is often associated with the grotesque. Chimeras make use of deterritorialization of one or more body part.

Exercise: Body Relationship Chimera

This exercise is utilized in Body Weather, an offshoot of butoh from Min Tanaka. One body part forms a relationship with another, and acts accordingly. Examples:

1. The left thigh is a frying pan and the right elbow is a vegetable. You fry this vegetable.

2. The left leg is a cat that is chasing the right leg, a mouse.

3. The right wrist is a man in a parachute that gets caught in tree, which is your hair.

Stacked Body

The stacked body will have one qualia base and a secondary or tertiary on top of it. For instance, we might take on the qualia of zombie, which will serve as the foundation, but on top of this, we might add yogi. If a mask were to stand for embodiment, we can think of one mask on top of another, so two masks would be a double mask. This is also the concept of overlapping from Özerk Sonat Pamir’s Ecosystems of Emotions method.**

We can also shift (gradient) the dominance of each qualia/mask like a music creator would a synthesizer knob.

Hybrid

Unlike the stacked body or chimera, the hybrid does not have separately defined qualias but instead are merged together into a new qualia like an offspring not unlike yellow and blue making green. A little bouncy ball and a leech might turn into a fat homunculus that bounces all over the place with fat suckers all over it.

Qualia Metamorphosis (Gradient/Synthesizer Knob)

Rational

These are qualias/qualia sceneries that naturally follow each other. For instance, if we have a camp fire, the fire will eventually burn out. The subbody part or cobody individual who was playing smoke may transform into air while the logs may transform into ash followed by enriched soil then a germinating flower seed, etc. It is important to place special emphasis on transition.

Irrational

Taken from Michael Michalko’s book Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius19

These are qualias/qualia sceneries that may not naturally follow each other. For instance, if we have a camp fire, the fire transitions into a baboon perched at the head of a courtroom in court dress and then transitions to ravioli. This idea is connected to abstracting/non-sequituring.

This in-between transition from qualia to qualia (which is highly recommended to stretch and ferment) can be associated with ma.

Exercise: Poem Recitation

Have somebody read out a poem slowly. Whatever scenery is being portrayed is being enacted in real time. The more surreal (or absurd) the poem, the better.

Multi-Qualia Forced Connection & Homospatial Thinking

When we work with two or more qualias, we have the option to form connections/associations between them, even if they are faint. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the question was raised, “”Why is a raven like a writing desk?” A good butoh artist/poet may immediately make endless connections between these two qualias: (1) raven; (2) writing desk. These connections are how a semblance of story (albeit absurdist) can spring about in performance. This is often a natural result of butoh play.

Creativity is often formed out of the necessity of making two unlike things work together. Such is the concept behind homospatial thinking which is “actively conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities.”25

Exercise: Qualia Connection

This exercise calls for at least 3 people. A qualia is called out by one individual, and immediately after, another calls out another qualia. Then a third person tries to come up with a scenery/story/character that connects those two qualias. The more different these two qualias are from each other, the more interesting will be the outcome. Example:

Participant 1: Balloon

Participant 2: Giraffe

Participant 3: A giraffe crashes into your birthday party and eats your cake.

If participant 1 and 2 call out a qualia that are too similar to each other such as “shaman” and “drum” (a real in-class example), then the third participant has to work extra hard to create a connection that is unexpected. Connection a student made was, “a feather trying to hit a drum.”

Random Qualia Generation

Over time, no technique is needed to randomly become shifting qualia worlds, which is the point of jumping wild, but if one does feel stuck, here are some suggestions on how to randomly provoke qualias.

1. Choose any random letter and the first word that comes to mind (which starts with that leter) is the new qualia.

2. Engage in gibberish or nonsensical utterances. A qualia word may come from that.

3. Look at the surroundings and allow associated qualias that come, e.g. I see a window, so that makes me think of sand because glass is made of sand. Sand makes me think of the beach, etc.

Vaporization/Embodied Qualia Meditation

When Tatsumi Hijikata performed the weakened body in his last performance called Quiet House, he was in reality performing the vaporized body. Vaporization is the potential, invisible world body, astral world, which is of endless qualias. In the vaporized body performance, there are two things taking place: (1) The 3d world body that appears weak or in ash body, dead body or statue/freeze. (2) The multidimensional invisible world or shadowbody.

Hijikata was fond of Antonin Artaud of the Theater of Cruelty, and a term known as the body without organs (BwO) mirrors that of the vaporized body. Deleuze and Guattari were also fond of Artaud and make extensive use of the term as well. D & G say of the BwO: “The body without organs is not a dead body but a living body all the more alive and teeming once it has blown apart the organism and its organization.”² It is thus “alive and teeming” because it is in the multidimensional world.

The dead (Hijikata’s Shisha) or frozen body in butoh theater is a means to an end. D & G say, “You invent self-destructions that have nothing to do with the death drive. Dismantling the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions, levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a surveyor.”³ In other words, the dead or frozen body is means to an ultimate novelty and inner-creator.

Quiet House had many qualias and characters involved, but the audience may have only perceived a very limited movement weakened body. If this practice appears pointless to perform in front of an audience, note that even the most subtle feeling inside the body may microexpress enough for the audience to maybe feel a difference even if clueless from where it came.

Exercise 1: Countervaporization Paradox (Advanced)

This is an exercise in opposition and paradox. This is a form of conjoining opposites. Here are some examples: If you are physically in a constrained body, your astral body or invisible world body is countervaporizing that of expansion. If you feel heavy, then the countervaporization is light. This means that though externally you may embody a certain qualia, internally (in the vaporized world), you are embodying the opposite.

Exercise 2: Countervaporization Synthesizer Knob (Advanced)

We form on one end of the synthesizer knob (scale) a dual world qualia or feeling (such as feather, large, cold). Our physical body will embody one of the qualias and we can transition over to the opposite end of this scale which is of complete countervaporization (see first exercise 1). In other words, we transition from one qualia dominating both the physical body and even visualiation/astral realm to one where gradually the astral realm deviates from the physical body.

Metaphor & ‘Pataphor

Qualias can breed metaphors and ‘pataphors because of their association with images. The metaphor is a comparison between an object and something unrelated, but the ‘pataphor gets lost in the metaphor, creating a world from it. Here, ideas or concepts take on a life of their own.² Let us use a simple example:

Non-Figurative: Your head tilts to the side.

Metaphorical: Your head tilts the side as if there is water coming out of your ear.

‘Pataphorical: Your head tilts to the side as if there is water coming out of your ear. The water attracts a thirsty raccoon who happens to thank you in English.

This degree of taking a metaphor further is enacting the ‘pataphor. This is your world. You can always extend your metaphor just as you can always extend your qualias. ‘Pataphors can of course be used in your choreography or butoh-fu. The following section Fermentation & Distillation is a good example of these figures put into place.

An important note to mention is that Butoh has a tendency to go beyond metaphor. Metaphor will turn straight into metamorphosis. With the case of the example above, when the head is tilting to the side, there IS water coming out. It is not as if it’s the case. It really is the case. Adjust everything in the world accordingly. This is also how Stanislavsky’s If works.15 ‘Pataphor is also already a metamorphosis.

In terms of butoh-fu, Hijikata’s words were not meant to be metaphors, but something beyond, something more open. If each of Hijikata’s butoh-fu words had an exact meaning, it would defeat the purpose of his notational system. In Michael Hornblow’s words, “The metaphor is a mould, ‘carrying’ linguistic resemblances and codifications, so it can never be truly vacant.” So, he suggests the word metaplasm instead, which “involves processes of modulation and transformation rather than the moulds or forms themselves.”18

Fermentation & Distillation

The following butoh concept/imagery was inspired by Rhizome Lee: (1) Juice; (2) Wine; (3) Brandy. These three states will denote forms/levels of transformation and/or depth that we can enact upon a qualia. Let us take the example of the facial expression. The general facial expression, for instance, of sadness, is something everyone can easily identify. What happens when we go underneath and refine or sublimate the general association? If we swallow the juice, can we turn the juice into wine? Can we then turn the wine into brandy? What happens when we swallow sadness? What comes of it? Can we create wine? Can we create aged wine? Brandy? Aged brandy?

Fermentation is cultivating ma or opening up a portal to the subbody. Christine Bellerose states, “When a choreographer asks a dancer for “more ma,” the dancer is asked to perform alchemy. A dancer who yields ma brings to movement the quality of aliveness to an otherwise neutral, or unborn space-time.”8 Neutral or unborn space-time here can mean the everyday world. Alchemy is fermenation. We want more magic. Let juice be the ordinary facial expression (or Maro’s teburi), e.g. an eye rub for disbelief. We then take this expression and swallow it so that it can ferment (become more miburi).

If we wanted to, we could take the juice/wine/brandy concept to the liking of our own hearts. We can ‘pataphorize it. Are we at brandy? What then? Have we suddenly traveled back in time to the prohibition where brandy is illegal? Does a cop see us with the brandy?

This concept is also connected to the idea of reduction, a reduction that makes the qualia richer.

Butoh Koans

“Butoh is about the impossibility of becoming nothing; it’s a Zen koan. The effort needed to negate [oneself] is what creates the point of realization.” – Marie-gabrielle Rotie13

Koans are riddles meant to be pondered or felt, which make great use of paradox and reading between the lines. Though koans are generally meant to be read and meditated upon intellectually, there is no reason why these cannot be transformed to incorporate the body. The koans below are transformed into butoh-fu (see above). The term “butoh koan” is a bit redundant because butoh itself is a bit of a koan already. Regardless, here are some very-koan butoh-fus.

1. Hanging by the Teeth

You are hanging up in a tree by only the teeth. Your hands are tied to your back. It gets harder and harder to hold on. You get so weak that you can already feel your impending death. You are almost at the point of letting go when somebody comes along and asks, “say the one thing that can save your life.”

2. Not the Wind, Not the Flag

What is moving the flag? You are a flag moving. No, you are the wind moving. No, you are the mind moving.

3. The Buffalo

You are a buffalo walking to the enclosure. The horns pass the enclosure. The head passes. The front legs pass. The torso passes. The back legs pass. But the tail does not pass. Why can’t the tail pass?

4. The Strawberry

You are at the edge of a cliff holding onto a vine with both hands. There is a tiger above you sniffing at you. Below, there is another tiger waiting for you. Two mice gnaw at the vine. You eye a strawberry. You pick it. How sweet it tastes!

5. Face Koan

What was your original face before you were born?*

Memories

We can certainly grab qualias from within our memories. There are certainly moments of our lives that are the most memorable. To Hijikata, Can Factory represented a memory with very rich associations/qualias. For me, perhaps its building sand castles in summer camp when I was a little boy. There is also a memory of extreme excitement/great impression, which Hijikata called Peacock, after the rare moment of encountering a peacock in the yard of his friend,  Mr. Yanagida.Hijikata pulls much from childhood memories as can be seen heavily in his stream of consciousness writing which makes good butoh scores entitled Sick Dancing Princess (also known as Ailing Dancer).

Dreams

We can draw vast inspiration from our dreams (such as Salvador Dali did) for our butoh. Hence, it is recommended to keep a dream journal.

 


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* This was actually a prompt in an a class exercise during Cinthia Patiño’s 2017 winter semester course in Mexico City.
** From Butoh Lantern intensive at Tiyatro Medresesi, April, 2021. http://www.butohlantern.com.
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