iuliana varodi p o e t r y p h o t o g r a p h y a r t p r o j e c t s
| ::: Idiosyncratically Here - the stranger as a lens - link to Theater Festival 2010 - I was here too, on my way. What brought me here, what kept me here and where am I now? performance sketches - incidental side products of artistic research to be seen on August 27th, 28th and 29th at 19.00 in De Singel - Kleine Zaal, Antwerp (BE) Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere (Novalis). Longing for one's home. Not feeling at home anywhere. Not understanding. Not belonging. Operating as a stranger, as an outsider. Not knowing the rules. Missing Transylvanian hills and fresh mangoes. Not making sense. Trying to find meaning in a reality one apparently does not understand. Persistently questioning if reality might be something else than any combination of sensorial perceptions and theories might reveal. What happens when one gives up? When one stops asking, enquiring, interpreting, deciding, thinking, watching, listening, talking, writing, hoping? When one surrenders to a seemingly self-inflicted alienation?  A short reenactment of the advanced performative journey and a DIY presentation of fragments of my artistic research on the relation(ship)s between Reality and the I. The work started in the context of a one year project hosted by "Advanced Performane and Scenography Studies" in Antwerp, a.pass. It has been an artistic and cultural experiential-exploration-trip, all about the relation between the "I" and Reality; at times in the actual surrounding context (an environement that felt to me, from some aspects I consider essential in facilitating artistic research, the opposite of how the formation is described on their website); at times running away, searching for a better place through fictive journeys of the senses in various imagery space-time frames of present, future and past. De Singel, August 28th, rehearsal :  Foto © Robin Zenner "That chair, is it a chair or is it green? " More from 'inside' the process: http://www.apass.be/apt.php?cwPage=browse%2Fuserhome&cwUser=109 |