Performance SWEEP - Letters to Hannah Arendt and Tristan |
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The most primitive experiences connected with shame are related to sight and being seen: inappropriately, by the wrong people, in the wrong condition, at the wrong moment. The reaction is to cover oneself or to hide. Guilt, by contrast, is rooted in hearing - the sound of oneself or the voice of judgement. | It is
difficult for us to speak about the complex notions of guilt and
shame, because they are tied up with matters we so desperately want
to conceal - sweep away - from our minds and our sight. Yet, despite our efforts, feelings of guilt and shame show themselves in the ways we behave. |
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In
a 60 minutes performance, three performers respond to silences,
whispers, accords, discords and two fictive letters. Their
movements are not extensively rehearsed, but reveal themselves for
the most part spontaneously. To what extent is this performance a
creative process, a construction of (cultural) conditioning or an
expression of failure? During the performance the public will be
actively addressed to take on a different perspective. After each
intervention, the performers redetermine their positions and
exercises in ‘becoming oneself’. The extensive bodily movements
will slowly exhaust the players, amounting to more intensified
expressions. |
With
performance SWEEP visual artist and philosopher Tine Wilde offers
us an exiting and at times humorous insight into the notions of
guilt and shame which for a large part shape our decisions. She
lets us experience in what ways these complex feelings lead up to
distorted judgments, how we subsequently get entangled until we
discover alternative different points of view and choose a new
route. For this performance Tine Wilde has teamed up with artistic director Mime, Amsterdam University of the Arts Loes van der Pligt, and performers Erwin Dörr, Gale Rama and Dennis Tiecken. |
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premiere
22 October 2015 |
SWEEP - Letters to Hannah Arendt and Tristan. Performance in Project space H401 (Castrum Peregrini), Herengracht 401, Amsterdam. |
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