the impossible is a frog

Geia se olous! elpizo oi ipoloipoi na mas sinodepsoun sintoma alla mexri tote ithela na valo edo kati apo ena poli poli agapimeno mou vivlio pou to skeftomai apo tin arxi pou eipame na ftiaksoume auto to blog, giati nomizo oti mas tairiazei :). Einai ena kommati apo to vivlio '39 microlectures in proximity of performance' pou xei grapsei o matthew goulish ena apo ta idritika meli tis omadas goat island tou Chicago.    xxx

"We began on Thanksgiving Day, 1986 [...] When the four of us met in my apartment [...] we didn't know we were beginning a performance group or even that we were beginning a performance. We only knew we were beginning. We agreed that we would share a kind of impossible problem from which we would generate material individually and then come together: a starting point. [...] We had no idea where this would lead us or when it would lead us there. We simply agreed to begin [...] We had few skills and little understanding of performance. We needed confidence [...] [Lin] showed us a paragraph by Yvonne Rainer from 1965.

NO to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to the glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction not to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

We admired these words. They encouraged us to avoid almost everything. What remained worth attempting, of course, seemed equally impossible." (Goulish, 2000:9-10)

Isos autos na einai enas endiaferon tropos arxis...i enasxolisi me to adinato provlima.... i mallon me to provlima me tin adinati lisi... gia na ksekinisoume na doulevoume kai na sizitame... perimeno gnomes! xx