Prometheus

science and art.

The selfreflexive action of both these practices. Both in two moments: theory-falsification for science; for art, two moments in the relation to an audience. presentation-representation, process-product, content-frame,...
To poor it all out: some themes, all related: Prometheus as the patron of all craftsmen, artisans and a fortiori science; (a reminder about the myth of Prometheus, faking the sacrifice); sacrifice as a mise en scene of a relation to the trancendent; theater as the mise en scene of itself: we see a performer on stage, we see a performer believe what he plays, we see ourselves believing in the game,...

Two associations on exchanges with some of you, previous to any announcement about the pretexts of echo:
without ever having seen Ellens work on schriftuur I connect it to my own recent intrest in the trauma of learning to read and write (independent of wether any of you guys had a dificult childhood); I myself keep this theme as an option in my attempts to rework a solo I made in Tel-Aviv and addres the audience on the problem of a technical nature: since they learnt to read from right to left and will do the same with visual scenes presented in front of them, (which is a common object of spacial dramaturgy) this means my western european spacial composision are all twisted in the Hebrew interpretation. On the other hand they, like many others, have had to learn to write a second alphabet.

damn I forgot the second item now....