Op het dansfestival Amperdans bracht
een performance die bestond uit een multimediale
stroom van gedachten, quotes en beelden.
In
een merkwaardige positie: de voorstelling ontstaat
in de waarneming van de toeschouwer.
Over de evolutie van een
3D-bestaan. Een neerslag van de hand van de artieste.
Flatpeople
Flatpeople cannot be in space, but boy, can we read books.
We can slide over the outline of the letters and follow the labyrinths of lines that make up each word and sentence, and in this way follow the stories written in any book made of flat pages. It sounds difficult, but in fact, for a flatlander it's natural and considered one of the most exciting sports.
Euclides
(...) I started researching again, some habits you never forget. (...)
(...) I will spare you the details and I will go straight to the point and purpose of this evening.
Actually I have to give you some details... Euclides believed in intromissions.
Euclides thought that from the eyes of observers rays are launched into space, fine grains of looking
atoms melt and capture all information that is being observed ... the rays spread and mix with the particles of air, cover all surfaces and steal their images and transfer them back into the brains of people with fingerprints, just like a constant rain.
This is what I had seen when I was trapped outside the horizon line.
Those were observational rays, and that means behind those rays there were eyes, and around those eyes there were 3D bodies -of course! I was going to
Every time I was going to work I was going to the third dimension, pulled by the act of observation from the other side. You were making me go to the third dimension and once you stopped looking I would go back.
Of course I could not connect this foreign country with
... lights words and movement on my side... darkness and silence on the other... how could I suspect that the light I was feeling was the light of your looking!
That was why I was so tired, you steal my image every time you look at me!
We are so close, and yet we cannot communicate!
An audience full of
And the reason why I was feeling strangely alive in your world was because I was being seen! ... never mind to be or not to be... to be is to be seen!
And if I could force you all to watch me all the time, I would BE all the time, right?
If I could kidnap all of you, right here, right now...
And perform for you forever so you would stay right there, right now, watching me, all the time...
Interesting
If I could kidnap all of you, right here, right now...
Interesting... (...)
nightmare
This was becoming a nightmare! You had already invented cubes like the one that took me so long to build!
You not only use me to reason about information, but you also want to make me look like you without allowing me to be you!
letters
(...) All communication between the readers of an image and the makers of an image takes place on a 2dimensional surface. Communication is nearly always carried on a 2D level.
I thought and thought and thought about these two worlds and realized that if the written world had been invented by
This means that letters are codes to produce space.
Somewhere in all the reports, books, articles and other bidimen-sional documentation, the transformation processes are described in detail -I just had to do it backwards- it was just a matter of finding the right formula.
I decided to be very practical and dedicate my research to finding out more about the mysterious fingerprint beings and find what qualities they have that I don't have.
I started comparing everything I read to everything I have. This way, I would arrive, by an empirical process of comparison and elimination, to a list of empirical elements that would only exist in
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empirical components I needed to create an empirical 3D model in
chapter
BUT
I thought it was such an amazing letter with so many lines that no doubt it had to have a lot of meanings. I took what you would call a 'lot of time' in your world, to memorize this amazing letter and started investigating it.
At dinner, I discussed and shared my ideas with my family. My wife thought it was just another of my weird hobbies and my son kept telling me it was a landscape letter, not meant to be de-codified.
Still, I persisted with my investigation and still today I wish I had never paid that much attention to it.
(You say curiosity killed the cat, but what I discovered almost killed
On another day, it was a
I could not believe what my body-line was sliding through!
This 'strange letter' was a fingerprint!
Well, I know what a fingerprint is, I just had not slid through one before.
Just like
'Hoewel we ons dagelijks door eeri driedimensionale wereld bewegen en in de wiskunde af en toe
met relatief gemak nadenken over gebieden met nog meer dimensies, zit de wereld van onze informatiedragers gevangen in de twee dimensies van de eindeloze oppervlakten van papier en videoschermen.' Edward R. Tufte
Flatpeople
Euclides
Nightmare
Letters
and
was out there
living the real one.
Mv life was fake!
Chapter
Foto
David
Auteur Patricia Portela
Publicatie Etcetera, 2004-12, jaargang 22, nummer 94, p. 50
Trefwoorden flatland • fingerprint • world • empirical • euclides • rays • time • discovered • flatpeople • nightmare
Namen Bergé • But • Dimensional Expansion • Eszter Salomon • Flatland • James Bond • Kaaitheaterstudio's • Maybe I'd • One day • Patricia Portela • Sarah Michielsen • Space-landers • Spaceland • Sunday • What
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