Postări
S-au întors ciudaţii, după o pauză de câteva luni:
The presidential candidate at the mall, during the national day
What does the romanian presidential candidate offers?
For
now a radical practice and some critical thinking.
His
2010 messages and actions were all focused on deconstruction and thus
on the inevitable cynical conclusions upon the status quo. The practice
consisted in breaking the contexts in which he was invited, making
shortcuts inside the utopian projects and emulating political
representations.
The candidate
pushed the reality to those limits that “reality” usually tries to avoid
to acknowledge. We (the staff) tried to expose what the system prefers
to obstruct, to reveal the ideology behind the nightmare. 2010 was a
year of great turbulence and, as never before, the future seemed grim
and hopeless.
Capitalism seems
dead but is sucking everything around just like a cosmic black hole.
Though, unlike a black hole, the periphery is the first to go down, the
margins have to “adapt” (instantly) to the new paradigm of the calamity
driven world, to the never ending succesion of singularities that leaves
the center much smaller (but stronger) and condemns the concentric
circles to total ruin. The 4th world will forever work to that end, in
fact the scale of the “worlds” has now become larger, we have today also
a fifth world and we are witnessing a revival of the second world
condition. Otherwise we deal only with the present, history
has been resuscitated by the current crisis but the official left is
improvising on the spot. Everything revolves around inevitable future
predicaments or disasters, the ones that will constantly shift our
focus, plans and "politics". Stability is nowhere to be found, we will
pounder on little terms projects and wait to be detoured again and
again.
So these are some of the
conditions of the contemporary society that the presidential candidate
tried to aproach in 2010.
The last action/event that the romanian candidacy proposed took place
on the 1st december of 2010, the national day of Romania and the
anniversary of the biggest mall in eastern europe, AFI Palace Cotroceni
in Bucharest.
We got permission to
enter in the show by cheating the PR of the mall saying that we are
going to present a modern dance piece. We send fake images from previous
shows that we never did, actually they all came from a youtube search
session. One of the videos that we send as "document" to the PR was
taken from a Ultima Vez piece by Wim Vandekeybus.
Most importantly we
told her that we are for free! So they didn't have to burden their marketing
budget...
We
were kicked out of the stage just before the end. Some of the mall
staff got angry with our show although we were officially invited by
them. But it was a postspectacle evening anyway. Before us, on stage,
were little dancers (at most 12) from the National Opera Experimental
Studio. After us acrobats and Holograf (famous romanian rock band) were
due to follow, and last but not least in the end of the day there was a
raffle "with prizes for everyone".
We just tried to push the show in the same direction, but to the edge.
Mixing trash estetics with hardcore critical speeches we delivered
something that actually was already there, or it seemed like this
anyway. The bigger spectacle that surounded us was absorbing and, as it
proves here, it can absorb anything. From here on apparently only
violence can shake something up.
For a while, after this action, The Presidential Candidate was
depressed.
http://postspectacle.blogspot.com/2010/12/presidential-candidate-at-mall-during.html
2 comentarii :
Psiho...
Sunt duşi, dar vor să-i molipsească şi pe alţii.
Trimiteți un comentariu