Fragile Protocols

Ritual
Samhain
Networked
Eat garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum)
Sow late autumn / early winter
Full sun, fertile soil
Plant cloves below surface
Fertilise before planting
Weed often
Harvest when leaves yellow

Prepare
Fire
Myrrh, patchouli
Garlic, share
Texts on death, decay, darkness.

Host
Friends gather
Begin after 60 seconds silence
Read texts and talk:darknes, liminality, otherworlds.
Read, speak, listen simultaneously with some pauses
When not reading and talking eat some raw garlic
End with 60 seconds silence after last person speaks.

Enactment

Patrick Simons, Kate Southworth with Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (Furtherfield)
Cornwall / London
Networked, recorded
Launch: 31 October 2006, 23:51:19 GMT

Re-enactment
Kate Southworth with Julia Kiely, Camilla Stacey, Nina Fenner, Leila Galloway
Cornwall
Live (sound recorded)
Launch: 31 October 2013, 19:00 GMT
Fertile Darkness

For Kate Southworth’s solo show, Fertile Darkness at The Fish Factory, Penryn, Cornwall