(with a special request to provoke and to not hesitate to mix reality with fiction..)
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Who is the leader, and does everyone share his/her vision?
In the concept there is no leader. But unfortunately we had a parallel power issue going on all the time because we mixed the working process with our lives and we involved real feelings and conflictual relationships. The power problem associated with the masculine-instinctual-ego image was there most of the time. Actually in some parts the „ artistic“ part was secondary and the focus was on dealing with power related conflicts. The politics, the governance of the group was an issue almost all the time.
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Do they do what they say that they do?
Yes, we did more than we proposed - even more than we could deal with. We wanted to challenge property and ownership in the artistic world, but we arrived at dealing with property and ownership in human relations, in couples. Sometimes our process looked more like telenovela stuff. Looking back now, this process dislodged some unquestioned hierarchies and authorities in our small Romanian dance community, and some society taboos too.
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An open question not on the list: Why all this?
People do anything to protect commodities and the status quo. This is the same for empires like the US which are ready to protect their way of living by attacking everybody, and people who accept being enslaved and selling their time in all kinds of jobs. Couples who prefer to cover up the unpleasant reality and make believe that everything is ok, and artists ready to apply verified and safe models of operation in order not to derange themselves and the system too much. So I think it is interesting to create situations - contexts that can push the experience outside the safe zone.
This situation of taking five persons to develop five different projects in the same time and space certainly can push you out of your territory (skills and means of doing performances). It proved to be an efficient way to challenge our powerful cultural and biological inscribed relation with authority, hierarchy, rules and taboos, even in groups of friends and couple relations. And yes, sometimes it is good to explode a little the boring activity of entertaining, the unchangeable ways of living, doing „art“ and „dance“. It is healthy to feel that what you are doing is mixed with life and can have repercussions and an impact on others, too.
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Who is the leader, and does everyone share his/her vision?
In the concept there is no leader. But unfortunately we had a parallel power issue going on all the time because we mixed the working process with our lives and we involved real feelings and conflictual relationships. The power problem associated with the masculine-instinctual-ego image was there most of the time. Actually in some parts the „ artistic“ part was secondary and the focus was on dealing with power related conflicts. The politics, the governance of the group was an issue almost all the time.
...
Do they do what they say that they do?
Yes, we did more than we proposed - even more than we could deal with. We wanted to challenge property and ownership in the artistic world, but we arrived at dealing with property and ownership in human relations, in couples. Sometimes our process looked more like telenovela stuff. Looking back now, this process dislodged some unquestioned hierarchies and authorities in our small Romanian dance community, and some society taboos too.
...
An open question not on the list: Why all this?
People do anything to protect commodities and the status quo. This is the same for empires like the US which are ready to protect their way of living by attacking everybody, and people who accept being enslaved and selling their time in all kinds of jobs. Couples who prefer to cover up the unpleasant reality and make believe that everything is ok, and artists ready to apply verified and safe models of operation in order not to derange themselves and the system too much. So I think it is interesting to create situations - contexts that can push the experience outside the safe zone.
This situation of taking five persons to develop five different projects in the same time and space certainly can push you out of your territory (skills and means of doing performances). It proved to be an efficient way to challenge our powerful cultural and biological inscribed relation with authority, hierarchy, rules and taboos, even in groups of friends and couple relations. And yes, sometimes it is good to explode a little the boring activity of entertaining, the unchangeable ways of living, doing „art“ and „dance“. It is healthy to feel that what you are doing is mixed with life and can have repercussions and an impact on others, too.
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