Metaphysical and Experimental Conversation
Saturday 29 March at 14.00–15.30
An experimental conversation about language, art and existence in connection with Samuel Brzeski's exhibition Infernal Monologue.
Director of the Dramatikkfestival, Idun Vik, and 10 kilos of clay and various language formats will participate in the experiment.
The ambition is to explore what happens when linguistic structures break down – words and language that have been thought of as something that creates and structures our reality. The experiment wants to deepen the exhibition's thematic investigations, focusing on how sound and visual elements trigger moods, affects and sensory impressions.
Are there other ways to understand the world than through reason and language? Can we, through the experiment, challenge conventional understandings of language and meaning?
Calling a metaphysical conversation adds an extra dimension to the discussion by exploring fundamental questions about being, existence, and the relationship between language and reality – themes also touched upon in Samuel Brzeski’s exhibition Infernal Monologue at Kunsthall 3,14.
The experiment is inspired by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s thoughts on the voice as a place of human becoming. Agamben explores the pre-linguistic: the sound and bodily experience that underlies language, and which can provide deeper insight into existential questions. By paying attention to the voice, we can open up to a spiritual dimension in language – not just understanding the words, but sensing the underlying energy and power that language carries. A space where imagination and the strange become a chosen method for creating another space, a space where we can be happier and freer.
Participants:
Idun Vik works broadly in the performing arts field as a performing and creative stage artist, dramaturg and producer. She is a trained actor at the Guildford School of Acting and worked for several years in London before her work took her to Bergen where she has been based since 2014. Here she has been associated with BIT Teatergarasjen, Den Nationale Scene and Cornerteateret in addition to collaboration and development of her projects in the free field. Idun is the founder and artistic director of Cornerstone, which has in a short time distinguished itself as a progressive arena for the production and presentation of new stage texts.
10 kilos of clay:
Clay is plastic when wet, which means that it can be easily shaped. In a dry state, it becomes rigid, and when heated, permanent physical and chemical reactions occur that change the clay into a ceramic material. Because of these properties, clay can be used to make ceramic objects for both useful and decorative purposes. Clay is the oldest preserved writing material. Thousands of years BC. cuneiform was written on pieces of clay. The oldest figurine found is a clay figurine called Venus from Dolní Věstonice. It is dated to 29,000–25,000 BC and was found in Czechoslovakia in 1920.
Gitte Sætre is the debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14. She is a trained visual artist and curator at the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico and the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts. For Kunsthall 3.14 she combines her work with research on the free and independent voice of art in the public discourse. Through her network and her exploration of conversations and ideas from different environments, she curates compilations for the 3,14 LIVE program.
The event is free and open to everyone, welcome!