- Caprice: We've all wanted to see an autopsy, haven't we? We've all felt that the body was empty, empty of meaning and we've wanted to confirm that, so that we could fill it with meaning. Autopsia means the seeing for oneself. Why First Autopsy? Because we know there'll have to be a Second Autopsy. If you want to do an autopsy, you need a corpse. Corporeal, incorporate, corpulent. Body words. Fleshy words. Brecken is our corpse. Brecken was a young boy who was murdered by his mother because of what was hidden in his body. Because of the meaning that was there. For her, the body was not empty of meaning. And now let us dive deep into the body of Brecken and, like professors of literature, search for the meaning that lies locked in the poem that was Brecken. So, we see that the crudeness and the desperation and the ugliness of the world has seeped inside even our youngest and most beautiful. And we see that the world is killing our children from the inside out. Here we have the anatomy of today's pathology. And we know now why we'll have a Second Autopsy, and a Third. We know that we'll have to keep... diving back deep inside, hoping to find a different answer. But for tonight, let us not be afraid to map the chaos inside. Let us create a map that will guide us into the heart of darkness.
- Saul Tenser: What I'm saying with that body art stuff is that I don't like what's happening with the body. In particular, what's happening with my body, which is why I keep cutting it up.
- Caprice: [after watching Timlin come on to Saul] What was that all about?
- Saul Tenser: Just another epiphany. Art triumphs once again.
- Cope: I have a lump on my abdomen. You see it? Picasso? Duchamp? Francis Bacon, perhaps? Am I an artist?
- Timlin: He takes the rebellion of his own body and seizes control of it. Shapes it, tattoos it, displays it, creates theater out of it. It has meaning, very potent meaning, and many, many people respond to it.
- The televisions during Caprice and Tenser's first performance: [Body is reality]
- Saul Tenser: Well, you're saying your surgery, the surgery that made you plastic eaters, was somehow replicated genetically in your son? That surgically acquired characteristics
- [GRUNTS]
- Saul Tenser: became inheritable? You cut off your little finger
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Saul Tenser: and your kids are born without little fingers?
- Ears Guy: [Pirouettes to Techno Music]
- Router: Saul Tenser is an artist of the inner landscape. Creation of art is often associated with pain, and pain, as we know, is always associated with sleep.