tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85368208385175419392024-03-13T23:17:09.707-07:00The Circles of the Dragonby Diego AgullóUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536820838517541939.post-43135096756679411172010-09-28T08:11:00.000-07:002012-06-10T04:37:27.844-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">To unfold </span></span> in <span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">7 circles</span></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">the irreparability of all that is the case, the self awareness, limits of reality</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">and ways of occupying spaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">THE 5th CIRCLE OF THE DRAGON</span>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-weight: bold;">THE 4rd CIRCLE OF THE DRAGON</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">... and the desert was laughing at me<br /><br /><object height="338" width="601"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true">
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-weight: bold;">THE 3rd CIRCLE OF THE DRAGON</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">All that is the case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">THE 2nd CIRCLE OF THE DRAGON</span></span></span><br /><object height="338" width="601"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true">
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<embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13124916&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="601" height="338"></embed></object><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="Mi idea primera fue la siguiente: la TOTALIDAD es siempre demasiado grande, inaprehensible, por eso necesitamos limitarla para comprenderla,"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The touch is the truth </span>(Antisthenes)<br /><br />The whole is always too big, elusive.<br />To frame the whole to understand it.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="por eso escogí dos imágenes de esa limitación: la primera es el propio medio del vídeo: EL ENCUADRE, es decir, el bosque como metáfora de la totalidad como lo imcomprensible"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">To make visible the invisible,<br />relevant the irrelevant.</span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="algo que en prinicpio no se veía en el encuadre general o no estaba singularizado, sino que soy yo quien APUNTA exactamente en mi APERTURA hacia el ente, y usando las manos">I use my hands </span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="La segunda soy yo como personaje ahí que se mueve dentro de la totalidad y que va, no exactamente buscando, y esto es importante, no busco sino que ecuentro,">Not looking for, not a quest but the adventure of finding,<br />bumping into things</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="en el sentido de TOPARSE con el ente, chocar contra él, algo aparece en mitad del camino, y entonces por medio del TACTO, del tocar, selecciono un elemento, singular dentro de la totalidad,">encountering the reality<br />to point out</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="algo que en prinicpio no se veía en el encuadre general o no estaba singularizado, sino que soy yo quien APUNTA exactamente en mi APERTURA hacia el ente, y usando las manos">I use my hands </span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="en el sentido de TOPARSE con el ente, chocar contra él, algo aparece en mitad del camino, y entonces por medio del TACTO, del tocar, selecciono un elemento, singular dentro de la totalidad,">confronting the limits<br /><br />Something in the way</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="algo que en prinicpio no se veía en el encuadre general o no estaba singularizado, sino que soy yo quien APUNTA exactamente en mi APERTURA hacia el ente, y usando las manos"><br />Singling out<br />Exposure<br />I use my hands</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="porque no hay otra verdad que se desvele mas que el mismo hecho de desvelar."><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">there is no truth to unveil more than the very fact of revealing.</span></span></span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m3VOmOaEolo/TEIeqm-CO6I/AAAAAAAAAdA/vL7Kp_Jneao/s1600/diego+agullo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494988212709505954" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m3VOmOaEolo/TEIeqm-CO6I/AAAAAAAAAdA/vL7Kp_Jneao/s400/diego+agullo.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 225px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="Entonces al final, mi idea era al encontrar la LICHTUNG de Heidegger, es decir, el claro de bosque donde la verdad se aparece,">In the end, die Lichtung</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="Por eso creo que no hay ninguna conclusión o revelación, el vídeo continua siendo lo que es, una experiencia,"><br />With no disclosure,<br />just one more journey<br />and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="es que necesitemos ponernos en movimiento para ver lo que siempre YA estaba ahí,">need to get moving to see what was always already there</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="por eso que necesitemos perder algo para saber lo que queremos, o poner a distancia para ver propiamente algo,">To lose yourself</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="vivir en la verdad es estar tan perdido como al principio y tener la necesidad de estar en movimeinto, relaizar decisiones, cortes, acciones,"> as lost as in the beginning and have the need to keep on moving<br />making decisions, cuts. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%;" title="pero no hay quien nos pare os pies."><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">The human is the being that, bumping into things and only in this encounter, opens up to the non-thinglike. And inversely, the human is the one that, being open to the non-thinglike, is, for this very reason, irreparably consigned to things.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">Non-thingness (spirituality) means losing oneself in things, losing oneself to the point of not being able to conceive of anything but things, and only then, in the experience of the irremediable thingness of the world, bumping into a limit, touching it. (This is the meaning of the word "exposure")</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Giorgio Agamben "The Coming Community"</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE 1st CIRCLE OF THE DRAGON</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"></span><br /><object height="338" width="601"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true">
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<embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10393775&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="601" height="338"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br />SOLO June-December 2009<br />Rehearsals at Gelber Raum/Tanzfabrik and Milchhof in Berlin and Premiere in Amsterdam at the SNDO<br />Created specifically for ONE person as audience (max, 3 persons)</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">THE CHALLENGE: to maintain the engagement only through body movement/image.</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Transparency</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"> in the presence. To present myself in the space</span>.<br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br />THE GIFT: to display myself for their pleasure. I offer my presence. Everything I do, I do it for you. The guest activates my performativity.<br /><br />THE ATTENTION: in the way hipnosis works. How to become a sign that you can not avoid interpreting every single second.<br /><br />THE GAZE: to project lines, directions, presenting the space, opening the space. But also to intimidate. I am exposing myself but I watch how you experience it.<br /><br />THE TOUCH:<br />- Touching with the eyes: the distance is what makes this happen, the tension, the desire.<br />- With my hand I touch your image.<br />- I touch myself knowing that you are watching me: my body is my primary reality, self seduction, intimicy.<br /><br />THE FORM: being visually formal and precise: to become oneself an attractive hipnotic image.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Special Thanks to: Robert Steijn, Ria Higler, Anja Müller, Agata Siniarska, Daniela Lehmann, Dimitry Paranyushkin, Ibrahim Quraishi, Alma Soderberg, Gabriel Smeets, Christin Schmidt, Elpida Orfanidou.<br /><br /><br />THE CIRCLES OF THE DRAGON by Diego Agulló<br /><a href="http://www.diegoagullo.com/">www.diegoagullo.com</a></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0