Flatline Series 1: A Draft
(A Video Installation by Infinity and Accident*)
I. Dying to See the Light
I’ve heard accounts of people who’ve had Near-Death Experience detailing their encounter with some tunnel of light, or their lives flashing before their eyes.
Like almost everyone, I have this morbid fascination with Death and Dying and everything that comes and goes with and after it.
But what if there is no light at the end of the tunnel?
What if nothing, just this big nothing, awaits us?
Like everyone, I’d like to end this life with some sense of fulfillment or completion. Yes, I’d like to see the light. More, I’d like to be “enlightened.”
And this, before dying.
II. Dog is God Spelled Backwards
A pseudo-intellectual joke: A dyslexic agnostic insomniac was kept awake in the night wondering if there was a dog.
In a past life, I was a dog.
III. The Grand Sex
They say that the orgasm of sex is called “la petite mort” because the release that one goes through is tantamount to some kind/form of dying, “a little death.”
Imagining death as the ultimate experience, would it then be “the Grand Sex”?
Moments before dying, what I felt was an intensification of sensation accompanying the palpitation of my heart. It culminated in an “orgasm,” centered in my heart. It was coupled with everything around me appearing brighter and clearer, as if bathed by a light coming from within. After which, I passed out.
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I woke up, five minutes later (so they told me), on a hospital bed, gagging, struggling, (alive!) and kicking.
ian lomongo
march 13, 2010
(*Infinity and Accident is Wire Tuazon and Ian Lomongo)