JUNEtime: 21:00
date: May 7, saturday, 2005
place: the iLLUSEUM
Witte de Withestraat 120
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wife , life , tripe , damnit and THAT "
a performance of electro-acoustic sound and the unsound body by Djalma Primordial Science dedicated to the spirit of Antonin Artaud
With installation by Het iLLUSEUM
*This performance made possible with kind support of the Berlin Mime Centrum.
May 12 and 13, 2005.
21:00. at Marci Panis.
Marcusstraat 52, 1091 TK Amsterdam
(between the Wibautstraat and the Weesperzijde; about 3 km from the Amstel Station)
The work of dancer Ephia explores the feminine elements of Artaud’s personality which emanated during his electro-shock therapy and came to be called "the unborn daughters of my heart". These semi-fictional daughter / lover / warrior / liberator-s, these innocent and filthy girls endure great hardships in their attempt to liberate their lover / father. Neneka is the youngest daughter, hence simultaneously the oldest, as this was also the name of Artaud's Turkish grandmother. Neneka is a fetal kitten slipped from the womb too soon, a spill on the floor, a formless body and dripping caul, a smudge. She is discovered in "the puddle state of electro-shock," a terrifying place of trembling void.
"...the whole lie of this inward electric body which for a certain number of centuries has been the burden of every human being, turned inside out, became like an immense turning outward in flames, monads of nothingness bristling to the limits of an existence held prisoner in my lead body, which could neither get out of its lead coating nor stand up like a lead soldier."
The extensive research for "wife, life, tripe, damnit and THAT" took Djalma Primordial Science to Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara in October 2003. Artaud visited the Tarahumara Indians in the 1930’s seeking to learn about the visionary experiences of those who "eat right out of the earth the delirium that gave birth to them" and whose vigorously physical spirituality Artaud thought offered a remedy to Western technological decadence. "wife, life tripe, damnit and THAT" premiered April 25, 2004 in Austin, TX at a welder's studio: large machines looming, metal pipes bursting with flames. The next incarnations of this project appeared in 2004 in Birmingham, AL at Omni Studio the site of an old slaughter house, in New Orleans, LA at The Jewel Gallery the site of an old brothel, and in Phoenix, AZ at Teatro Caliente Festival.
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ARTIST BIOS:
Ephia studied dance with Min Tanaka , Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, Anzu Furukawa, and Akira Kasai. Following her interest in ritual dance, she traveled to study under reknown teachers in Ghana, Java and Bali. She holds a BFA in dance from Columbia University (NYC). She danced in the company of the late Anzu Furukawa in Berlin, appearing in Furukawa’s final production, Goya: La Quinta del Sordo. In 1998, she began her collaboration with musician Jeff Gburek. In the seven years of consistent performance and teaching with Djalma Primordial Science, Ephia’ s deeply physical practice has gradually been recast as the UNSOUND BODY, characterizing her concentrations on instability, frailty and magma as movement imperatives and her strong desire to scratch away the veil of illusion from theater, leaving a spare and potent bodily encounter. In addition to their annual seven-day workshop in the desert of New Mexico, INTEGRATING WITH/DISINTEGRATING INTO THE LAND, they regularly lead workshops for actors, dancers, therapists, and all those interested in unleashing a deep internal expression.
Djalma Primordial Science will teach a two week intensive performance laboratory at the Mime Centrum Berlin July 11-24, 2005. For more information please visit www.djalma.com
Jeff Gburek has been playing guitars for 29 years and has been performing widely throughout Western Europe and the USA. During the 80’s he developed a personalized steel-string acoustic style influenced by Indian raga and Arabic maqamat, providing the technical backdrop for his more challenging table-top guitar & electro-acoustic treatments. He employs traditional & prepared guitar techniques, along with signal processing and field recordings, to create a blend of improvisational-compositional music drawing on the processes of musique concrete and the philosophy of the unsound body, crossing and re-crossing imaginary boundaries in sound. Other projects include the Berlin-based electro-acoustic trio ZYGOMA with percussionist Michael Vorfeld and sampling by Michael Walz. Additional appearances with reknown East German trombonist Konrad Bauer and English guitar pioneer Keith Rowe, confirm a continual interest in European experimental music. A CD of guitar solos and electro-acoustic compositions called ENERGARIUMS has just been released by the German label NUR/NICHT/NUR. (visit www.energariums.com for ordering info).
EPHIA/Jeff Gburek
Djalma Primordial Science
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