Over de risicovolle financiering van ideeën
Ik herinner het me nog goed, de schok Het gebeurde in de eerste helft van de jaren negentig Men zei dat men in residency was Ik was stinkend jaloers Ik keek tegen ze op Want hoe versierden anderen dat toch steeds Het was mij zelfs nog nooit overkomen dat ik een reisbeurs aanvroeg Tot ik erachter kwam dat het pure oplichterij was
Om je je dat goed voor te stellen moet je je indenken dat
PAF (
Iemand schreef daarover:
The impossible impossible perfomance
He staged a building, some kind of historical site he invited his colleagues and friends to stage the site and to direct themselves and to direct it themselves so they did a coming and going of friends and colleagues and friends and colleagues of friends discussing their work discussing proposals of work working working together a platform of exchange of merging of the smoothest way to produce and gain knowledge of experiencing and training of invention a performance a strange performance a permanence
He desperately wanted this this reconfiguration We need it he screamed We have to rethink the positions the undoing of a performance he used to call it
this unsplit of audience and stage
but this is no performance, they screamed, (when he started to ask subsidy for it as a performance) this is a new initiative, very interesting, but not a performance but I am a director he said I am staging this it is my work this undoing of the stage this undoing of the audience space the unification, he said and he started to shout: el pueblo unido.......
this, he said is a political performance a change of perspective a historical split undone but still they didn't want to pay for it the subsidy distributors
they were convinced that this wasn't a performance they knew this wasn't even art either (although they could know that art always should be the exception and not the rule)
they only subsided the rule the what they could recognize as a performance
his building they said was a project an initiative, yes, but no performance praiseworthy yes
but not eligible for subsidies not as some kind of art in general, let alone as a performance never mind how many actors were involved how accessible for anybody it was how this dispositive called theatre had been revisited how this rusty institute called theatre had been displaced reconfigured a serious proposition to revive it emancipate it dehierarchise it but nothing helped
a performance, they said, needs the split between audience and stage a split between those who know (their text) and those who don't know
a split between the haves and the have-nots a performance, they knew, needed the clear distinction between the included and the excluded the prepared and the not prepared the bored and the curious the teachers and the pupils a performance, they knew, needed hierarchy distinction inequality
they excluded him his performance died for him it died for them it never existed
this performance the impossible impossible performance the absence of a performance ( for them) not for the theatre director and performer himself for him it was a performance a more than live performance a bigger than live performance this area of exchange and merging compressed condensed a forum for producing knowledge and ongoing discursive practice a tool equal to all participants of the event a tool machine even a tool producing tools a place for temporary autonomy a theatre at work but not for them they left him out missing again and again this chance of making a difference that really could make a difference this chance to change addicted as they are to what they could recognize to what they think they belong too and to what belongs to them to what is known to them their past rejecting what eventually might have been possible what is unknown to them a possible future that of the probable of the impossible possible•
paf a relatively cheap A relatively light organization, in terms of overhead
paf is a platform for and by artists A selforganization of themselves motorizing artists Who work on art that thinks
A free zone Accessible without application A residency, yes In a historical monument, yes
meer informatie over paf :
www.paf.net.
De ‘impossible impossible performance' werd tentoonge steld in septemberoktober 2006 in
Auteur Jan Ritsema
Publicatie Etcetera, 2006-12, jaargang 24, nummer 104, p. 43-44
Trefwoorden performance • impossible • faciliteiten • dooie • split • friends • colleagues
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