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'Direct experience is prior to perception' 'I want to start where language ends.' Gormley starts where language ends. I start before language has even begun. Before language has given meaning an added form. I search for the essential form of being. My search for meaning is through the phenomenology of the body, the phenomenology of space and the phenomenology of light. I search to make visible the forms through which we know. The abstract, geometric forms which lie at the heart of the physical universe. I seek to dislocate the Platonic dualism of body and mind. Phenomenological experience through light and space denies that artifice, that dualism constructed by man which apprehends his experience of self as whole being. I seek to create whole man's experience of self. I use phenomenological experience as a way of knowing. I place man at his centre once more. |
Prelude 1 is a series of works dedicated to the exploration of the inherent narrative of the forms of the triangle, the circle and the line. Access to the narrative is through ‘in-tuition’ - the knowledge that exists within the body : its response to these essential forms as expressed through light. The intuited knowledge is experienced through the body in movement. The film Prelude 1 records and expresses at the most abstract level the interaction of body, light and space. Performers & lighting designer work through intuition. The work is not choreographed in any conventional sense. It is pure expression and response to the lit forms. Andrea Dates performs the circle, Richard Harding the triangle and the light forms are created by Judith James. The film is directed by Mette Rix; edited by Pamela Glintenkamp (www.sandpail.com) and the sound created by Aslak Mildh and Richard Harding. |