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The Unified Field
Live Sound & Video Installation/Performance art project in collaboration with One Man Nation in Yogjakarta, INDONESIA.
The following is the proposal for a performance-based piece exploring new relations between the live performance vs the cinematic language. Attempting in the process to return to a certain ‘psychic paleolithism’, a more intuitive performative practice which involves a departure from symbolic thinking and the disruption of the ‘law of the father’ by more archaic impulses.
The main action of the performance centers around the smashing of an aquarium filled with gold coins, water plants, oil and water. This action of destruction goes beyond the material, a breaking down of limitations both physical and psychological, leading to the eventual flooding of the stage suggesting an undetermined amalgam of initially separate elements.
Four video projections of previously prepared recordings of the same action unfolding in a similar space will be screened concurrently with the performance. The original sounds from the pre-recorded videos will be intersected with processed local environmental recordings broadcasted via a quad speaker installation. These electronically amplified sounds will be juxtaposed with the raw unamplified sounds of vocalized gibberish (broken English sentences created by an automated language translator) together with the incidental sounds made during the performance leading to a psychological disassociation of reality through the fragmented sensory experience.
This work tries with its hallucinatory structure to break the linear time conception, described by French feminist thinker Julia Kristeva as “the father’s time”. This refers to the patriarchal linear concept of time that men have inhabited, with its sense of history, destiny and economic progress, as opposed to the unconscious ‘Unified Field’, where time is marked by repetition and the subject regresses into a realm where nothing is differentiated.
Technical Rider
Elements: 2 big self-made aquariums (1 for the prerecorded action, 1 for the live performance), water, oil, a hammer, water plants, a mound of coins (a number enough to fill up one of the big aquariums), sound.
Equipment: 4 video projectors, 2 video-cameras, 5.1 Sound System preferred, if not, at least a quad sound (4 speaker) system, lights and torches.
Space/Time required:
- 2 weeks of preparation: a big dark filthy place, such as a basement.
- 1 week for installation in the space for the performance.
Note: For the next performance we will attempt to recreate the atmosphere of being inside a mother´s womb. The audience will step into an almost dark room with an artificially increased temperature and humidity upon entering the performance space.