stephan e perez × meerkat-girl Collaboration Performance 「Resistance to the Abyss, The Dog in the Rock」 2021,12,4,SAT. #001
去年の12月4日のハムたま第一回のパフォーマンスアーカイブです。日本語の説明の方は、このリンクで。
This is a performance from last December’s HAMTAMA #001. You can learn more about Ham Tamago Sandwich at the website, as well as look at the complete photo-video-archive of this and other performances.
In an episode from the Greek myth of Sisyphus Tartarus, Albert Camus uses the words "absurd man" and "absurd creation", and says: "There is only one truly philosophical question: suicide. It is about suicide. He used it as a metaphor for the idea that "repeating the same action over and over again can only lead to the same result in the end". Michel Foucault argued that the "human punishment" of our time, the psychological punishment, is more problematic than the physical punishment and torture of modernity. It is not just the legal system, but all groups in modern society are subject to the same structures of surveillance, power and brainwashing.
If you were plunged into an abyss, would you make an effort to get out of it, even if it deprived you of the ability to think? A wild animal without a high level of civilisation may not be able to use
the structures and systems we have created. It means that a man cannot pass through the gap of a big rock, only a small animal can. When we imitate what already exists, the masks
that we may have put on our own faces gradually adhere to our skin, and by the time we feel the itch, we have forgotten that we are even wearing them. If the warmth of the puppy soothes you
and you want to hold it, pull off the mask and show it to the animal in the flesh, even if it hurts. Otherwise, the animal will be frightened. They live in absurdity.
(Script on the HAMTAMA page)
All performance direction/Artist
Grits(Stephan・Elliot・ Perez × Meerkat-girl)
Performance cast/ Grits,Dogs
Performance shooting /editing Ma Raven,Meerkat-girl
Video direction/ Meerkat-girl
Video shooting location/Dog heart fromアクアマリン
Live electronics & footage from Interactive Realism (2019) by Stephan E. Perez
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