Telematic Beings (and I ) . . .





A performance and telematic installation for a scenic environment:

First presented at:
Sitges Teatre Internacional, 33 edició, 2002
Teatro Prado
Sitges, España.
7th and 8th June, 2002


a preface:

In the deep horizon of our imagination, the essential thing is no longer forms and matters, or themes, but forces, becomings, intensities.

a description:

By means of words, speeches, actions, style, physical presence and telematic presence: the performance, will at turns, tell of or retrieve a relation between a telluric human figure and a telematic figure.

These differing realities in their collective comportment and articulation of obsessions, hallucinations and lucinations, describe how we might exist telematically (in the speed and disincarnation of the Internet): a zone that lies somewhere between an abstraction of a human body and a digital architecture.

a declaration:

"I will begin with a basic fact: The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism, a culture); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed by its growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically."

Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share Volume I .

an excess:

This moment of transgression, leaves me with the sense of having wrested from the unknown something real; of understanding a depth without space; a depth absent through its existence; a depth absent through the force of its existence.

A geometry beyond geometries.

Real, distant, invisible, present . . .

This faintness
This capacity
This retreating
This going beyond!