Score No.21-23:
HIDDEN TIGERS, RISING RIVER
THE SCORE
Pick some material from a daily life and take it into another context. Use it not to make something out of it, but to allow it to do something to you.
How does material influence body, movement and state of mind when you surrender to it?
Performers, a bathtub and a huge pile of flour. We dive into the tub: a seemingly ordinary scene of two children bathing together. Or two lovers celebrating.
Maybe two strangers sitting next to each other on a bus, heading in the same direction. The scenes change more or less with our projected imagination
and presence. As we move around the tub, we actually knead the dough. Our movement changes accordingly to the properties and behavior of the very
material. A patina builds up on our skin. The effort increases with the density of the dough.
At a certain point, the tub tips over and the dough slowly creeps out of it. We fall with it into the final scene: our heads now buried under the dough. We merge into a thick mass of some kind of “shared brain”. Just as the dough rises and spreads, “collective memories”, reminiscences of a shared stories and experiences, creep out of the arbitrary video-projections on the dough-pile. Flash-backs that emerge from individual heads, but are part of a common process of life and personal identities.
The performance is a metaphor for seeking a contact with other people in the dense mass of life and social contexts. A metaphor that speaks of how our personal action both co-creates this context (dough) and depends on it, always involving a life of its own (the process of rising/emergence).
Concept of the project: Radharani Pernarčič
Co-authors of the Score & performers: Srečko Jorš (Gregor Kamnikar), Radharani Pernarčič
Sound: Neven M. Agalma
Video: Radharani Pernarčič
Photography: Sunčan Stone
Thanks to: Cirkulacija2