The Book of ecstasies and transformations

The Book of Ecstasies and Transformations in the version used by the Dark Pool Project has been compiled over the course of roughly a century. The original text consists of four short axioms and eight slightly longer “tokens” broken into two sets: the tokens of the vessel and the second tokens. This text came into the Project’s possession via the Vandermeer family who first imported it to the United States from Canada in the early part of the twentieth century. Gregory Vandermeer played some role in exposing Marissa Mars and Autumn Tremond to the text and Mars and Tremond then proceeded to add their own commentaries and narratives to the version as we know it now. The final addition, the responses of the actor, are the work of Project director Rob C. Thompson based on experiments he conducted in graduate school with undergraduate student and performer Ana Pavon.