November 2009
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WatchJamie O’Shea in Objectile at Eyebeam, Nov 2009
Microchoreography
Microchoreography is the conscious and reflected moving material that applies to the actor’s facial zones. By repeating and serialising emomechanical movements we emancipate ourselves from the mimetic and the narrative.
Just as biomechanics is not a series of trained repetitive figures but is an individual functional moving mass, giving the viewer transparency and legibility of ideas on stage,...
Informa / genome
The informa/genome is a texture of details and information saved in the umbot, required by the programming equipment for processing “syntapiens”. The texture contains the complete sequence of base couples of the actor’s genome.
Universal mechanical art structures
Machine art equals Supremat:
Machine of all machines, the machine, which fabricates other machines equals Art.
Machine culture equals Automaton:
The machine that contains the negative of the product and makes products equals Culture
Products equal Culture
Product advertising equals Metaphysics of Culture
Noordung Biomechanics, 1999
Noordung Biomechanics is the first complete theatre show performed in conditions of weightlessness. The premier was staged in 1999 with seven actors performing to eight spectators, including theatre critics. The show was repeated once. It was carried out in co-operation with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (CPK), Star City, under the direction of Colonel Nikolai Grekov, Colonel Viktor...
WatchBiomechanics Noordung, 1999
Visual-linguistic abstraction
The basic operation of visual linguistic abstraction takes place on the sampling level. Visual-linguistic abstraction is another name for visual poetry. An intermediary interweaving between poetry and visual art intensifies the receiver’s awareness that language is a form, which can be transformed and manifested in many different ways.
For their construction, the basic structures of...
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Telelogy
Besides telecosmism, “telelogy” is the most important strategy of post-gravitational art. By digital structuring of information, light and sound, a stylistic formation will emerge from telelogy in future.
Just as telelogy is a digital strategy for post-gravitational art, telecosmism is its theatre strategy.
An important precursor of telelogy is Stan Van de Beer’s (1966) method of...
Star City
Star City lies 40 km northeast of Moscow. The central circle of Star City is home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was founded in 1960. All generations of cosmonauts that have gone into space, from Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova onwards, trained in the centre.
Alongside the central circle, equipped with research laboratories, training facilities, institutes and...
Vocalomaton
The vocalomaton is programming equipment, is installed in the umbot of the first level of development. Its purpose is to translate the actor’s voice into music. When an actress in the 50-year theatre show Noordung: 1995–2045 dies, the vocalomaton will translate her words into a melody, and when an actor dies, his words will be translated into rhythm. This procedure will be repeated 14 times. In...
Delak / Synthetic theatre / Tank
Ferdo Delak (1905–1968) was a theatre director and– reformer. He was an active constructor of the second generation of futurism with his own dramatic and publicising activity. Despite his enthusiasm for futurism, he was also open to other European avant-garde stylistic formations at the beginning of the 20th century. Russian Constructivism was particularly important to him.
In his first artistic...
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First reprise, 2005
The premier of the 50-year, post-gravitational theatre show Noordung: 1995–2045 took place on 20 April 1995 at 10pm in Ljubljana. It was planned to have five reprises to be played every ten years on the same day, at the same time with the same actors until 2045. The show also includes the process of exchanging actors’ bodies for remotely controlled abstracts, which at the conclusion of the show...
Dual
The dual is a grammatical form, which denotes two objects, two concepts, two phenomena or two persons. In grammar, the dual is one of the grammatical numbers. Traces of the dual can be seen in many Indo-European proto-languages but only a small number of languages have preserved it in its entirety. In literary Slovenian, the dual has been almost perfectly preserved!
Ciolkowsky / Oberth / Potočnik
Explorer and space travel pioneer Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkowsky was born in 1857 in Izhevskoye in Russia and died in 1935 in Kaluga. Tsiolkowsky was the first to begin scientific study of the technologies with which mankind has penetrated into near and deep space. His most important scientific work on space travel is The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices from 1903. The...
The Problem of Space Travel, 1928
The book The Problem of Space Travel (its original title was Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums – der Raketen Motor) by Herman Potočnik Noordung was a fundamental work for the first generation of those studying space travel. The book was published in 1928 by Carl Schmidt & Co in Berlin and had 188 pages. It contained 100 technical drawings and sketches by the author.
In his book,...
Noordung Geostationary Station
The geostationary station of the Slovenian Herman Potočnik Noordung is the first planned architecture designed for living in space and to be placed in the earth’s orbit.
This engineered construction, dating from 1928, consists of three independent units. The central unit is the residential wheel, which spins and thereby creates artificial gravity, the second unit is the observatory and the third...
Association of Autonomous Astronauts
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is a global community of individuals who have chosen for their mission the abolition of the monopoly of corporations and governments over space programmes. From its independent position, the association wants to introduce civilian control over space agencies.
The central mission of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts is the struggle against the...
Astronauts / Cosmonauts / Anarchocosmists
The use of the word “astronaut” or “cosmonaut” is ideologically motivated.
Astronaut is an American term for a star traveller who, in a manner similar to that of the American settlers, lands on a star, plants his flag on it and in this way indicates that he has conquered it.
The meaning of the Russian word cosmonaut is traveller in the universe. It comes from Russian...
Heterotopia
The term “heterotopia” is otherwise an arbitrary term of postmodernism, but it is still meaningful for understanding the post-gravitational strategies of the 21st century.
A heterotopical department is that department of a space agency that explores ways of presenting to intelligence that is not human, what it is like to be human.
“Deconstruction of binary opposition!”
– Cognitive synthetic construction
Emancipation of the technological
In two pipelines of the “technical demonstrator”, 14 capsules will have levitating independent content units, which with the energy of their designs will be prepared for the direct appearance of stylistic growth.
At the end of all stages of concept and process of the 50-year theatre show Noordung: 1995–2045, all 14 content units will obtain their own final form and inform in...
Trieste Constructivist Ambient, 1927
The Trieste Constructivist Ambient is a complex compilation and congenial summary of collective, universal intelligence in overcoming the last problematic planetary force – gravitation.
The Trieste Constructivist Ambient is a structured artwork with many different functions. The central logic behind the Constructivist ambient is the working department in which Constructivist groups work. The...
Vector directing
Directing in post-gravitational theatre makes use of two strategies “blank-body directing” and “vector directing”.
“Blank-body directing” comes from the conceptualisation of the artwork and the disappearance of corporeality in the process.
“Vector directing”, meanwhile, comes from direct theatre practice where the actor’s and the spectator’s...
Microgravitation
Microgravitation is a phenomenon that occurs when the pull of gravity is barely acting. The moment that gravity stops acting, a body begins to be attracted by the mass of another body. The moment of stepping from one attraction into another is “absolute weightlessness”. Therefore there is no such thing as absolute weightlessness! As soon as one body stops being attracted by another, it...
Black square / White square
“The white square is a sign of pure functioning. The white square is a direct impulse for the world. We can understand it as pure functioning as knowledge of oneself in the pure utilitarian perfection of the all-person.
The black square is a sign of economics, economising and reduction.
The black and white squares also draw attention to the extinguishing of colour.
Colour gives way to...
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Planits
The word “planit” was coined by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich. It is a composite of the two words: “planet” and “satellite”. A planit is a cosmic supremus. A planit is an interplanetary Suprematist satellite! In 1920, Kazimir Malevich wrote in his self-reflective Suprematism: “Beneath the Earth and the Moon we can build a new Suprematist satellite…...
Emomechanics
The whole skeleton of the actor generates emomechanics. The focus is on his facial dynamics (the microchoreographic zones). A recording of emotional movements is processed with emotive motivations and projected into an emotional inventory, which can be saved and reproduced.
“Samples are those configurations of neurons that have informational content.
...”
– Dr Mitja Peruš, Samples of a lower order / samples of a higher order / cardinal neurons
Microchoreographic zone
Microchoreographic zones are polygonal points that support a detailed record of the actor’s face. The facial polygons are arranged in such a way that the face is split up into seven “hot zones” and four “cold zones”. It is in the hot zones that a potentially large collection of “emomechanical mimes” arises. In the cold zones, only a minimal collection of facial...
Suprematist satellite / Constructivist satellite
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
If we consider the sum of 20th century stylistic formations around the world from an Eastern European point of view, then the stylistic formations of Suprematism and Constructivism are certainly the most important for the 21st century.
Spaceships, geostationary stations and artificial satellites of the 20th and 21st centuries have in their...
Biomechanics
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
The biomechanic system of Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold can be defined as the “theatre of the straight line”, which is the opposite of the “theatre of the triangle”! Meyerhold’s system demands of the actor that he does not act as though he is alone in a room but that he is constantly aware of the audience. Because the play process unfolds before...
Skeleton
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
There are two basic presentation strategies at work on stage: the charisma strategy and the skeleton.
The charisma strategy appears in the moment that the body becomes known on stage. In the beginning, the body never appears through a “role”, but through a “face”. The face is the first stage for the viewer’s transcendence. The viewer who sees...
Levitation
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
An abstract work of art will be truly abstract when it loses its own weight and manifests itself in zero gravity conditions. Only in zero gravity will the abstract work of art be abstract, when it loses its gravitational orientation: down, up, left, right.
Docking mechanism
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
When the system begins to connect, a deadly concentration sets in. Concentration, signification and control; concentration in orbit and control in dangerous sequences. In the module, we are sliding towards the last division of intellect. The planned act follows: due to the docking process we are in the energy hub of the event. There is no more...
Suprematism / Constructivism
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Constructivism is a stylistic formation which categorically rejected the duality of art as the temple of deeper thought and the factory as the place of production: “the factory must become the new temple of work, and intellectual and material production”.
In this way the difference between content and form in art disappears forever. Content is...
Informance
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
In an informance, meanwhile, the body on stage is information with a strategic plan. The informer tends to become a technological abstract, which is his signature and at the same time his distance from the signature!
Performance
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
In a performance, the body on stage is the same body as the one on stage and no other. It is the personal form which appears on stage: the performer draws him/her together and signs his own full name on stage. His role is his signature.
Transformance
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Transformance in theatre is over two thousand years old. Through the process of identification and transformation, the actor’s body becomes a role on stage. The actor’s body becomes a transformed body: the transformer tries to conjure up in himself a role, while he signs his own name when he is out of this role.
Transit futurism
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Russian culture is an eclectic culture which draws from different cultural sources at different historical moments. One of Russia’s traditional sources is Italy. Russian artists intentionally transform the captured formativity and transform it with their own philosophical and theoretical mass. Immediately after taking over Italian futurism in...
Robot / Umbot
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
The word umbot comes from the most commonly used Slavic word that can be found in the dictionary of shared words: robot. Robot comes from the word “rabota” – work, “rabotnik” – worker –therefore robot. The umbot has three divisions which support it etymologically. “Um”, meaning intellect and the deeper capacity for understanding. Um, also short...
Orbital orientation
It is hard to imagine being in orbit, not only because of weightlessness, but also because of the feeling of losing one’s orientation in space. The sense of direction becomes completely individual in conditions of weightlessness. Reference points for orientation are transferred from space to the individual. A consequence is that new conventions for orientation are generated in the visual...
Icon / Fresco / Image / Ambient / Telepicture
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
At the beginning of the 20th century, theatre experienced a radical change. Theatre went from the historical continuity of “word, drama, conflict” to historical continuity of “image”. From historical Hellenist sequences, via Renaissance dramaturgy, classicist and romantic dramaturgy to the anti-dramaturgy of the 20th century there enters a...
Cosmism / Transhumanism
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Cosmism is a cosmocentric philosophical and cultural movement which appeared in Russia at the end of the 19th century. It reached its peak at the beginning of the 20th century. Cosmism covers a broad range of ideas about the beginnings, existence and future of the universe. It brings together eastern and western philosophies. The main...
Levitational construction, Stepančič
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Edvard Stepančič’s levitational construction is one of the central artistic products of Constructivist thinking and also an inalienable part of the integral artwork Trieste Constructivist Ambient from 1927.
Besides Stepančič, the other people behind the Trieste Constructivist Ambient are Vlah, Carmelich and Černigoj. Trieste Constructivist...
20th century / sign / system / model
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Up until the end of the 20th century, metaphysical tasks in art were performed by allegories, metaphors and symbols.
Allegories represent the abstract through parables. Metaphors name a certain phenomenon with an expression which usually denotes some other similar phenomenon. Meanwhile, symbols illustrate a specific abstract concept. In...
Attractor
DUNJA ZUPANČIČ :: MIHA TURŠIČ :: DRAGAN ŽIVADINOV
Attractors are special specimens! They are whole hordes of neuronal activities which carry informational meanings. They are also very specially balanced because they represent the minimum energy of the system. That is why other specimen compositions begin transforming into special patterns – into attractors. Their informational meaning ensues from...