set of 21 5"x8" instruction cards

each card contains one phoneme from שמע ישראל, the words that call jewish ears to oneness

participants hold one card and sing their assigned phoneme, cued by the wrestlers' movements

mashing up biblical narrative and liturgical text, absolute one scratches raw the callused skin of conventional jewish practice with chance, risk and dream

absolute one combines live wrestling with open ended vocal performance in a participatory art ritual of transformative encounter

“heeler waxed larger toward the twig, dusting a person inside, witnessed by dawn’s leafing-- no completion in sight, fatigue penetrated the thighspoon, and heeler’s thighsocket cracked during the internal dusting match-- said push me away when sunlight is leafing-- said i won’t send you if you don’t tenderize me-- said when you come near it how does it know you said heelgrabber-- said it no longer wants to find you by heelgrabber, only by theoboss, when you boss around both with gods and with messengers and become fulfilled-- still heeler kept searching and said please enrich me with your address, said you search for my thereness to reach the what, and gave tenderness right there-- heeler spoke the address of the place theresurface bc i get directions surface to surface and my lifebody is deathshadowed”

genesis 32:24-30