Let's Begin Again (2021)

Let's Begin Again was an online performance collaboration created with Amanda Harvey in October 2021, and involved a three-time performed re-iteration of a written piece by Creaghan with music created and performed by Harvey. It was a performative consideration of the eternal return, as well as the impossibility of true repetition; all is flux. The text began like so:

1. How are we going about this difference in opinions a gulf just like a hand on the chin it is within our purview to whose responsibility will it be next from the balcony swings forth the desperation hands clasping at the wind petals fall like ringlets from the clouds I await the rolling thunder I await the violence of wings
2. Of these I will not speak of [repeated, like a chorus]
3. Teeth like drum taps eking out what cannot come with ease
4. I will not be the one to take away but I will not be the one to push forward your wrist
   
   It is now time for a story to be told many different times.
   Once there was a
   When the planets align there is
   Every fucking day I have to

[silence].
Let’s begin again.


​This project was made possible with the generous support of Le conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.