Letters ... circumferenced
dance theater
debut in 2010
dance theater projectin collaboration with Ditiramb community and the Theater Drachengasse Viennae-mail letters, confessions, images of identity, life questions and types of communication,irritations and inspirations,love letters and hate speech - messagesin exchange of an international group of artistspresented in multi-media live performanceDuration: 58 minsProject team: Kim Jones /USA, Bettina Schäfer/AT,, Goran Becircic/BiH, Tatjana Sehic/CRO/AT, Edda Breit (Celo) AT; visuals "Risomat": Andrea Nagl/AT, sound: Jan Vysocky/AT
“Letters:
a kind of living form,
stimulating, engaging, nourishing;
if they are absent, one dwindles away powerlessly
and cannot endure the environment;
in short, I note
that it is vital to receive these messages from someone so loved.”
Marie de Sévigné letters to Mrs de Grignan September 27, 1684
shattered thoughts, snatched away
A starting point with changed premises
building on experiences made, at the same time starting from a still point again,
an unknown placepoint,
which includes all the advantages that were placed in it
and that are associated
within.
Fragments, untapped ramifications of a far-flung tree...
The mysteries unsolved...
Spreading heart rings, uncounted after the cut... Rain polishes the leaf veins... A few feathers tremble in my hand...
Letters ... "CIRCUMFERENCED"
Circumference of the tree, the horizon, the abdominal cavity...
Circumference of thoughts, scattered with feathers falling from a book...
Boundary to infinity...
The words are drowned in dewdrops from a scented tassel...
The stamp sticks to the tongue.
Tatjana (Sehic) Christelbauer 2009
CIRCUMFERENCE (Art_EXILE)
"Circumference" appears as one of the key-terms in poems of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886),
a metaphor for a circle that extends between Emily's house (where she was in a kind of exile from the age of thirty and corresponded with the outside world by writing and sending of letters) and the outside world and the limits of what is humanly comprehensible.
The idea of the circumference
in the multimedia project letters ...
was coined within multiple spatial dimensions and forms of communication. In doing so, the questions of the givenness of various living conditions and identity images and roles were pursued by artists in their reflective individual work and by exchange, on
what possibilities are given by the new media to evade the "threads" of various categories, to expand the corpus, to rewrite oneself polyphonically and in many forms - in virtual spaces.
The new communication technologies and virtual spaces enable new forms of communication, forms of being, with and within. The detaching, sending, and receiving of electronic messages emerges
without stamps and without envelopes, without handwriting and nevertheless signed.
The correspondence in a digital space does not experience real, but imaginative borders on electronic channels and digital devices.
The availability and the projection surface are given in an endless space. Regular or in the spam, the messages are there.
How it matters and affects our emotional state?
What role does love play, what role does anger play,
when receiving irritating notes and what kind of irritations has been experienced and how is possible to re-act?
What role does language diversity play?
And what real and surreal images of identity overlap in the translation as Dis-embodiment and as a process of re-embodiment?
The polyphony of individual subjects became a communal experience, located between interior and exterior space, in the transition between real and virtual spheres and spaces,
between suddenness and continuum.
Between love and anger
between blackouts. and light spot
Letters ...
identity constructions, identity images,
threads and feathers,
real and virtual communication spaces,
Love and anger as emotional companions
cognitive irritations
in Talk on stage
Performance collage
The poem "My letter to the world"
of the great American poet Emily Dickinson
was a guide
into reflexions of artists on their inner-and outer lifeworlds
in the term of ´circumference´
the exchange on questions of one's own history, gender roles, identity, pre-gifts and paraphrases, the threads of belonging and its forms of communication in various forms, states and channels
initially took place
via e-mail correspondence.
The contributions were then tied together at one-week rehearsal at the Drachentheater, Vienna
and presented in an evening- multimedia performance.
Concept, direction, film concept, performance buffet-surreale art installation:
by Tatjana Sehic:
Actress at the performance buffet Surrealle with love letters: Elke Rogl
flashbacks
On October 5, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., the dance theater project “Letters from ... WoMan” was premiered in the Theater in der Drachengasse, 1010 Vienna.
With the guest dancer and choreographer from the USA, Kim Jones, an international group of artists joined together for the first time for this occasion.
The dance theatre project was undertaken by Tatjana Sehic as a part of her master's studies, as an attempt to answer the research questions in her thesis on identity construction in the narrative field (Derrida, Deluze, Nancy) from a gender-theoretical perspective (Haraway, Harting, Benhabib). and the Deconstruction (Foucault, Derrida) as a method for -circumferencing-of one and manyones, was tested using various art forms.
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