The Secret Name
Concept and directed by Jeff Stein
Collaborating with sculpture Jade Pegler
Devised and performed by Ashley Dyer, Janie Gibson and Frank Mainoo.
Showing Date: Thurs 30th, 8pm
Venue: Red Box Studio, 91 Canal Rd Lilyfield
RSVP: admin@legsonthewall.com.au
Kafka wrote in his diary that if we call life by its right name, it comes forth, because “that is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons.” Magic, to Kafka, is the science of secret names.
The work of the sculptor Jade Pegler are creature like, wrapped in paper from books, as though through the process of wrapping the object with texts, the creation process has somehow animated the object. The objects appear in process of becoming. They exist in a kind of twilight, either becoming alive or fading away.
The aim of the project seeks to find an inter-play between object and performer. The performer will take on the qualities of the object and seek to find the twilight world in which the performer also seeks to become or dissolve.
The themes are about magical nature of language, the conversation of inanimate to animate and visa versa, Light as metaphor, light like words, exists within this metaphysic realm, playing a important role in the creation process, how light reveals the body and object, the seen and the unseen, the know, the unknown.
“The secret name was the name the creature was called in Eden, when it is pronounced, every manifest name- the entire Babel of names is shattered… The secret name is the gesture that restores the creature to the unexpressed. In the final instance, magic is not the knowledge of names but a gesture, a breaking free from the name…. happy, and without a name, the creature knocks at the gates of the land of the magi, who speaks in gesture alone”
Giorgio Agamben, Profanations
Friday, July 24, 2009
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