What more to say? Maybe some more photo :-) Or maybe some more text.
Today's discoveries up till now were two tools. Already first day of practice in Cankarjev dom we understood that main tool of work is mistranslation. And that ground objective of work would be mistranslating previous day's work. We decided to still work one by one, meaning that one does the action for about seven minutes and the next one mistranslates the work done before, and without technology (video, photo, compupters). We did though use music and sound.
Putting things, suggestions, ideas, propositions on the table was a challenge and fun.
If I had, but then really?, a dream, I would let it out there and now and all would crumble to flow.
I am surprised how many people were interested in the basic idea of the installation version. Which is?
Well in 3d identity seems like fragmentary and in more-then-3d dimensions the identity is an entity that appears to 3d people as fragmentary. This is what I would like to offer as an experience through the system of videoprojections and cameras. Well and how the identity is connected to documentation? Basically it has to do with the fact that identity Nelson Valmor for example is not generated, orchestrated or managed by one physical entity like usual, that is to say, to human being. I share this with Gregor that identity is cross-single-human-being.
It is perfect space for experimentation and research. It is within a complesx of workshop of www.imperfettolab.com where is also huge space as gallery and smaller galery. This part includes kitchen and toilet and some other spaces. So it is transitory space, where people must and like to come to satisfiy basic needs. It is a space of mingling and by-the-way chitchat that can result in great discussions and sharing.
The publicly announced session of Obed 14th July at festival Hotel Limbo at Laboratorio dell'Imperfetto took its own way immediately it started. Again :-) And that is something we want to happen.
We organize the environment, the conditions, in order for us to indulge into working with what is there already and where it is taking us. Whenever one says in performing „it“ took me somewhere, this „it“ is co-created by each individual (starting with performer and going all the way to observer) by creating conditions where this „it“ then appears, happens, takes over.
WE - me, gregor and marjeta- (and later on I will go back to the WE) are in imperfetto lab in gambettola. marjeta and gregor are working on M (two versions, a performance and installation i forgot which versions :)
Me and tehvan are working on obed, a long-term collaborative practice oriented project, that is shaping and changing its forms as we are changing. we have to work more on production and realization of the restaurant version, gregor!
As we were working with Marjeta here in Gambettola, we came about a nice finding concerning the performing and performance, as Marjeta took the break while performing. It came from talking about message of the performance. Gregor has told Marjeta she should always think of the message of the particular performance beofre she starts the performance. What message you want to transmit today through performance/event? Marjeta always had problems with that and had hard time articulating it and integrate it in her doings.
I'm writing this after i have written in Slovenian for the blog. I aknowledge I should make entries shorter in order to balance out the quantity (and quality) of what I write when I decide to write for English and Slovenian verison.
Anway, here we are in Italy. Marjeta and I decided to come earlier to the festival Hotel Limbo then planned. What a good decision. This way we flow with rhythm of Italians which is slower only because it uses another way to come to results then in Slovenia for example. Here the pleasure is part of life more then in Slovenia where it might be more considered as reward and less an integral part of coming to the result. Sure, it is not black and white situation and also my experience of living in Italy is somewhat limited.