"90 min, colour, mono"
Performance by Duro Toomato
Author: redactie redactie
Monthly updated true stories, examining the motivation, operating modes and methods of an "artist".<br /><br />29 may: Part 3: Why the bear did not win the Nobel prize?
<b><p>There is no fireplace to tell the stories next to.</p><p>There is no projection of the images of the fireplace on the screen either.</p><p>Only the empty screen to be filled up with self created images.</p><p>Hybridisation of space, time, form and the "machine" in the dimmed environment of the small cinema.</p><p>In English.<br />No subtitles.</p><p>____________________________________________</p><p><br />//introduction//</p><p>by Nancy Mauro-Flude</p><p>"90 min, colour, mono" is a personal process of a performer, a system for consulting the tenets, a live performer in front of the live audience, immediate reality, a collection of markings from the life of a performance maker.</p><p>//perception and imagination are strangely confused, along with the normative logic that tries to hold them apart// </p><p>"Everything I planed is dismissed instantly." says Toomato "It is about the moment."</p><p>//it is an essential kind of resistance in a technocratic society to rehabilitate memory of the living theatre// </p><p>"90 min, colour, mono" is an open-ended process of dealing directly with intimacy in the theatrical apparatus and presence without lighting or amplification or the actor. </p><p>We are present in time, place & space with the performer who is in "real-time", "now- time", lived and experienced time, endured rather than calculated, to draw on Bergson's distinction between measured time and time as duration. It is in measured time that causality, and narrative, come into play, in a past which foreshadows the present as its future which we will fully know only once the past, as we determine - that is, speculatively construct - its causes and consequences. That is historical reality. </p><p>"90 min, colour, mono" however, just is. It is without history until ordered, remembered, recollected. </p><p>//the metaphors of inward contemplation (theatre as escape) are subtly intertwined with those of referential (or "real-life") experience// </p><p>"90 min, colour, mono", playfully a process of assembling a meaningful/meaningless body of temporary knowledge using fragments of information gleaned from an arbitrary data extraction process, the human memory chamber. The content is activated in analogue time with the variables of intuition & intervention guiding the process.</p><p>//unwanted memories of a life that seemed to shape a different world// </p><p>"In the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines." <br />Subliminal.</p><p>Amsterdam, 2005, Nancy Mauro Flude</p><p>"Ultimate Fable" is written in a language ("second hand" English) that can be considered the most popular spoken language on the planet at the moment, and is the first ever book written and published in that ultimate post-modern language.</p><p>We are poignantly aware, that most of the previous Nobel Prize laureates have had to spend their entire life working hard before eventually being awarded. We also expect that some will raise "high brow preoccupations", being confronted with the nomination of a writer who just published his first book. But we are of the opinion that talent should be awarded, rather than the hard work.</p><p>Above all: "Arbeit macht nicht frei, Arbeit macht müde."<br />(from: "From Underdog to Überbear" by the Bear )</p><p>The Nobel Prize is a project that needs a determined lobby of support from professors, politicians, men of world influence and military men in particular to help convince the Nobel Committee of the worthiness of the nominee. </p><p>Anyone who can help, or knows anyone who can help, or who can make contact with Bear-loving professors, politicians and men of world influence and military men in particular can write to us <<a href="mailto:info@bearandturtle.com">info@bearandturtle.com</a>> or to Nobel Committee of Swedish Academy. </p><p><a href="mailto:sekretariat@svenskaakademien.se">sekretariat@svenskaakademien.se</a></p><p>In hope that you are sufficiently informed and that you will support us in our ultimate mission, we sincerely remain,</p><p>Redemption Books</p><p><a href="http://www.bearandturtle.com/">www.bearandturtle.com</a></p></b>