Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)
never illustrative or didactic
but a meaningful layer in a
multi layered text. The
technology involved in
projecting images into the
theatrical space became a
metaphor of medical visualising
technology. We used small
digital projectors, which the
performers would nurse, move
and embrace. We projected onto
the walls of the theatre, the
floor, actor's bodies, fabrics,
water and pouring sand. Images included 4D ultrasound of the
baby in utero as aforementioned, which had never been seen in
public. A recent UK newspaper article published them. We also
projected images of sperm entering egg, of single egg cells,
ICSI, especially filmed sequences of children playing, spring
flowers. Our finale included images of an empty swing going
back and forth and the mournful sound of the creaking of its
dry unoiled joints, a mechanism "not put to proper use," as
Lorca's Yerma would say, and in need of attention. As the
piece concluded, the footage gradually drained away to black
and white, the only remaining colour on stage coming from a
small laptop: a film of a bright yellow daffodil blowing
gently in the spring wind in the same playground which we had
already seen projected onto sand.
http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/anybody/furse.html (24 van 35)31-3-2005 18:21:46