| Part title |
Going down |
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| Part identifier |
P0000027 |
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| Part type |
Gesture |
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| Part creator |
Layzell, Richard |
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| Part description |
“Going down, you're going down, go back to where you belong, he's going down. Double J, double jerk, double jerk, he's going down, he's going down, he's going down. Go back to where you belong. You, double jerk, double jerk!” In the darkness Richard shouts in a slow, exaggerated American accent first as wrestling slides are shown. Richard explains later that this sequence is a quote from Mentations which he took to Poland. “I'm in the work now. [I've] Scripted, re-performing it wondering on some level: should I be repeating this memorized text? I'm relieved, I'm in the script but I've lost the audience... I'm loud here. 'Going down' comes from a wrestling era with images to go with it. From upstate New York that's what the audience was shouting, very memorable, play acting. One of the wrestlers was called Double J if you were against him you shouted 'Double Jerk, going down!” this was a phrase I wanted to bring back to England. |
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| Provenance |
Description compiled via interview with Richard Layzell, University of Bristol, 2008. |
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