INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECITATION

(Artist welcomes audience and invites them to invigilate recitation) In a moment I will be reciting for you a list of names of the 13 different types of organic green manure in latin. I will be inviting you to invigilate my performance from a typed list of names in latin to prompt me from, should I go wrong.

THANKS
(Artist gives thanks for the space & time) Before we begin can I ask you all to line up along either side of my bed and to stand as near as possible so that you can hear the recitation clearly should I go wrong.
ABSENCE
The 'wrongseed' recitation grew out of a desire to make a connection between the land and the body, both corporately and privately. Reflecting upon ideas of impermanence and our commonality as a group, and the insignificance of human life in relation to nature, I wanted to create an action that showed this.
THE AUDIENCE
(Artist recites 13 names of green manure in latin to audience) The audience's task of invigilation is a success, as I forget several latin names and make wrong pronounciations; the audience insist on a repeat of the recitation of all 13 latin names.
INCANTATION
(Audience & Artist recite in unison) The final recitation was a group of people standing around a freshly dug-out plot of earth, measuring the size of a single bed, and chanting over the plot in latin, the 13 names of organic green manure.