PSILICONE THEATRE (LT) & CHOCO JAZZ (HR) feat. ALEXANDER FORSTNER (HR) : REJECT YOUR SOUL

SC U REZIDENCIJI & MUZIČKI SALON SC / SC IN RESIDENCY & SC MUSIC SHOWROOM

21.9. 2012. u 21:30 MM Centar

Trajanje / duration: 50 min / Ulaz besplatan / Free entrance

PSILICONE THEATRE (LT) & CHOCO JAZZ (HR) : REJECT YOUR SOUL

Reject Your Soul adaptacija je bajke Oscara WIldea „Ribar i njegova duša“ u trajanju od 50 minuta u izvedbi minijaturnih silikonskih lutaka uz živu glazbenu pratnju Choco Jazza.

Eksperimentiranje ljudskim tijelom postalo je integralnim dijelom modernoga života. Vrijeme je, onda, da se istraži i ljudska duša: njeno prepipavanje, odvajanje od tijela, specificiranje njene težine danas. Poslije niza izvedbi koje su bile tematski društveno orijentirane, „Psilicone Theatrevraća se svojoj biti: psyche (grč. duša) + silicone (hr. silikon) = psilicone. Izvedba se temelji na Wildeovoj bajci „Ribar i njegova duša“, autorova nedvojbeno najteža bajka zbog zbunjujućeg, mistična koncepta tijela i duše. Mladi se ribar zaljubljuje u sirenu, ali da bi joj se pridružio u morskim dubinama mora se odreći svoje besmrtne duše.

U konačnici uspijeva i pridružuje se sireni pod morem, ali svake se godine njegova duša vraća i dovodi ga u iskušenje – vratiti je ili ne u svoje srce. Očaravajuća je to i dirljiva ljubavna priča koja fokus prebacuje na borbu između Duše i Srca za ribarevo tijelo.

‘Reject your soul’ (hr. Odbaci svoju dušu) uvjerljiv je vizualni prikaz duhovnoga krajolika gdje ljepota i okrutnost, želja i smrt supostoje. Reject Your Soul is an adaptation of the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde “The Fisherman and His Soul”, performed by miniature silicone puppets with live music accompaniment by ChocoJazz.

Experiments with the human body have become an integral part of modern life. It‘s time to explore the human soul: to grope it, to separate it from the body, to specify it‘s weight nowadays. After the period of performances dealing with social themes, Psilicone theatre turns back to it‘s essence: psyche (gr. soul) + silicone = psilicone. The performance is based on O. Wilde’s fairy tale “The Fisherman and His Soul”, which arguably is the most difficult of writer’s fairy tales because of its confusing mystical conception of body and soul. A young fisherman falls for a mermaid, but in order to join her in the depths of the sea he has to lose his immortal soul. Finally he sends the soul away and joins his mermaid under the sea.

But every year soul comes back, tempts fisherman wishing  to move into his heart. Fascinating and moving love story turns to the fierce struggle between Soul and Heart for control over the Fisherman’s body. “Reject Your Soul” is a convincing visualization of the psychic landscape where beauty and brutality, pleasure and death, exist alongside one another.

“Psilicone Theatre” glumci su minijaturne silikonske lutke čija se izvedba stvara uživo i vidljiva je na velikom i šarenom projekcijskom platnu. Izvedba „Psilicone Theatre“ javna je video izvedba silikonskih likova, specijalnih fotografskih efekata i osobnih predmeta. Izvedbu podupire i prati glazba. Silikonske su lutke otporne i neuništive. Savitljive, rastezljive, povučene, pritisnute, uronjene u razne tekućine i boje – tim osobinama demonstriraju otpornost i mogu postati primjer preživljavanja u otrovnoj današnjici. Tako su fizičke karakteristike lutaka odredile društvene teme družine „Psilicone Theatre“.    

Od 2005., „Psilicone Theatre“ predstavlja svoje izvedbe u prostorima koje umjetnost još nije dotaknula (rezidencijalni blokovi, bazeni sportskih klubova i sl.) i na tradicionalnim pozornicama, pokušavajući tako svim sredstvima uključiti one atipične gledatelje, ali i doznati njihove zahtjeve te im ponuditi suvremenu umjetnosti kao protulijek za probleme izmučena društva.

“Psilicone Theatre” actors are miniature silicone puppets, whose performance becomes visible as a large and colourful video projection created live.A performance of “Psilicone Theatre” is a public video play with silicone characters, special image effects, texts, and personal objects. The action is supported and accompanied by music.Silicone puppets are resilient and indestructible. Bent, stretched, pulled, pressed, immersed in various liquids and paints, they demonstrate resilience and can become an example of survival in the poisonous daily life. That is how the physical characteristics of puppets determined the social themes addressed by the “Psilicone Theatre”. From 2005, “Psilicone Theatre” holds its performances in spaces untouched by art (typical courtyards of residential blocks, swimming pools of sport clubs) and traditional stages, trying by all means to meet as many untypical spectators as possible, to get to know their demands and offer them contemporary art as an antidote for the problems tormenting society.

 Psilicone Theatre:

Kao umjetnika, izvedbene umjetnosti su me zavele baš zbog kontakta s publikom. To mi je uvijek nedostajalo pri radu u vizualnim umjetnostima. Zato izvodimo na mjestima koje umjetnost još nije dotaknula – volimo susretati ljude, posebno one koji nisu zainteresirani za umjetnost, uhvatiti ih u njihovu prirodnom okruženju, prići im onakvima kakvi jesu: polugoli u bazenu ili dok ispijaju pivo u dvorištu betonskih naselja. Želimo privući, osim kazališne publike, i one koji nemaju pristupa umjetnosti.

As an artist I was seduced into performing arts because of live contact with the audience. I always felt the lack of it when working in visual arts. That’s why we are performing in places untouched by art – we like to meet people, especially those who are not interested in art, to catch them in their natural environment, to descend on them as they are: half-naked in the swimming pool or just after they’ve finished few mugs of beer in the yard of block houses. We would like to attract not only theatergoers, but also those who have no approaches to art.