My Righteous Definitions
Performance by Chad Pratch
Duration: 120hours with five 4hour sleep durations
In this piece I redefined the letter “A” in the Canadian Oxford dictionary up to the word “Art.”
This endurance piece consisted of me confining myself to a room for five days working on nothing more then creating new definitions for words in the dictionary. Every time I changed a definition of a word; if I happened to use that word again I had to use it with its new definition. This became a hard and painful experience that truly changed my perception on human communication and the written word.
How to use this Dictionary:
The word will be stated at the beginning in bold letter by alphabetical order-
Soggy
Then in brackets I will proceed with the definition-
(A light breeze that forces you to relax.)
How I define sound or pronunciation, words with the same meaning and abbreviations, will change over the course of this performance.
Example will be given this sign: *
A
1(To add a word with a number. This is mostly seen when one needs to add two words together in order for a problem to be solved or not) 2 (The last place a person wants to be, some have called this place Hell) 3 (A place of nothingness, where nothing can be gained and nothing can be lost.)
A1
1(the first step to a successful relationship.)
AA
1(Places + 8890 = the time people spend together.)
aardvark
1(an artistic performance where the artist will not stop an action.)
aback
1(the back and fourth movement of skiers.)
abacus
1( a nonliving object that feels lonely.) 2( the villainous name for all cartoon characters.)
abalone
1( the individual that stands for twenty second intervolves.)
abandon
1( fallen a 5 = the person to your left every day of your life.)
abandoned
1(fallen a 6= the feeling of people walking from your left to your right every day of your life.)
abase1
(to except the fact you are not going to come to any truth.)
abashed
1(an individual that will not let you talk during a 36 = conversation.)
abate1
1(to find a 83927237464 = animal and call it a 8293902 = friend.)
abattoir
1(an internet gaming genre that in tales the deterioration of ones mind. * The game Unreal puts the gamer in the a virtual web based world where he or she must get on a virtual computer and join another web based game that will ask them to join another web based game and on and on this will go until the gamer has had enough. )
abbess
1(word a 9 = women that feel strongly about birth control.)
abbey
1(following a 90 = leader with thoughts of gaining all his or her follows obedience.)
abbot
1(sleep deprived understanding of the world.)
abbreviate
1(lengthen a 98 = trouble for people that think can do whatever they want.)
ABC
1(The expectance of a 99999008 = childhood dream never coming true.)
abdicate
1(perform for any one who will ask you to. * This word is usually used to seduce a 6= man.)
abdomen
1(sunshine that no one is able to see.)
abdominal
1(sunshine that will disappear.)
abduct
1(adding wild ducks into a 59504 = household.)
abenaki
1( the name of the first family member that finds out Santa Clause isn’t real.)
aberration
1( the sound water makes when as it is slammed against rocks.)
abet
1( talking something with someone and no paying any attention to the other people around you.)
abhor
1( talking to every person you meet but never staying to long with anyone.
abide
1(gluing a broken object back together.)
abiding
1(the act of braking a = 23 desired object.)
abject
1(taking into account the particular circumstances and thinking about the pros and cons of a situation.)
abjure
1( staying over night at a =2 friends house and leaving before breakfast.
ablaze
1( feeling really good about yourself.)
able
1(to set a 6908 = bad example)