THE VOYAGE
A Participatory Performance
in collaboration with Tomi, the Bike Messenger
How does one highlight the individual's experience, presence and interaction with others within a group? We explored this collectively in The Voyage, by initiating an interactive exchange of objects for a duration of three days.
Something personal versus something collective
Something personal that becomes part of the collective
Something of the collective that becomes personal
It might require intense attentiveness. It might encourage madness. It might be unpredictable. We are collectively improvising a flow of communication.
"In rupture, not only has the matter of the past volitized; the form of what happened, of an imperceptible something that happened in a volatile matter, no longer even exists. One has become imperceptible and clandestine in motionless voyage. Nothing can happen, or can have happened, any longer. Nobody can do anything for or against me any longer. My territories are out of grasp, not because they are imaginary, but the opposite: because I am in the process of drawing them. Wars, big and little, are behind me. Voyages, always in tow to something else, are behind me. I no longer have any secrets, having lost my face, form, and matter. I am now no more than a line. I have become capable of loving, not with an abstract, universal love, but a love I shall choose, and that shall choose me, blindly, my double, just as selfless as I. One has been saved by and for love, by abandoning love and self. Now one is no more than an abstract line, void. Absolute deterritorialization. One has become like everybody/the whole world (tout le monde), but in a way that can become like everybody/ the whole world. One has painted the world on oneself, not oneself on the world." (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988, p. 200).
Documentation comes back as one major part of a project, as ephemeral as this. As a form of archiving experiences, documenting can be a process of filtering, helping us understand what and why and how; capturing a glimpse of what has happened all while creating something new and separate out of it.
The Voyage was organised by: Betsie, Gabija, Julia, Sarah
As part of RASL Minor "Re-imagining Tomorrow Through Arts & Sciences"
With special thanks to Tomi Hilsee, the Bike Messenger
