Score No.17:
LETTERS INTO PARALELNESS
For the observer, things are simple. But when you are standing in the middle of situations, your involvement in them can limit your view.
Even when I don’t see you for a long time, I am an agent in our shared observatory.
THE SCORE
Score No. 17 is based on a simple division of space: the audience can move around and sees the whole action, while we are separated by a paper-screen.
We can only send letters to each other … from a temporary to a permanent address? Each at our own time, which is the shared time. Letters that are
not verbal, but sensory.
Parallelness usually suggests a lack of contact – yet, can we see ‘parallel’ as a particular way of being connected?
Can parallelness also be a field in which the lives of different plays correspond?
“Can you feel me?
[…]
Are you still alone?
Is that still you?
I am writing to record time, and in the course of my act, time passes.
[…]
Then I am completely in you, with you.
But then you are gone too.
I’m runnin out of the written, there is less and less of me with each letter?
It is wonderful to sit next to a person who is dancing and does not mind your presence.
It’s as if the dancer is letting you see his/her deepest intimacy up close.
From a distance I feel nothing – the paper does not cooperate.
The spectator without being infected is dead.
I don’t know which side of the cage we are on in the zoo… actually, the human garden.
[…]
A gallery of stories, carved by movement.
I am here, typing on a typewriter.
Very nice!”
(From the spectator’s text, written during the performance)
Concept of the project: Radharani Pernarčič
Co-authors of the Score & performers: Srečko Jorš (Gregor Kamnikar), Radharani Pernarčič
Video: Mihaela Ciuha
Photography: Sunčan Stone (picture 4-9, 12-15, 17), AniRadar (1, 18), visitors (other)
Production: Vaba Festival