KEIN
When i say “i", who is speaking? When i speak, there is a “plurivocity”, if you like, a braid of voices, which make my voice hearable. As soon as i speak - as soon as one speaks - a chorus starts, not only of the people who have come before me (who could have influenced me); not only of the people who will follow me, that i carry within me, but also the distant ones, the ones who are here, invisible, far or not so far away.
Similarly, as soon as i act, as soon as i do something, this action dissolves into a common gesture, without beginning nor end. Here is music: this undecidable space in between the individual and the collective, which is forever the same, already known, and ready to be recognized, re-enacted, in an endless future.
This show is to be premiered in Aberdeen on 29th of october 2016, performed by the Red Note Ensemble.
In here, there is no video, but a lot of text and string instruments with a new shape. Actually not so new since most of them are from the Stroh family.
they are integrated into a paper scenography which tends to blur their limits.
Behind one can see a small pipe organ. There are two in total.
Here three organs are visible, but only two will be used in the end.
This is a name i´d lime to hold. And the function, of course.
The 3d aspect of the printed paper is meant to bring a floating effect on stage.
oh my gosh am i late? ! so much hard work!! all the time in rehearsal and....
and so much belief in ME!... and that they believe in me makes me believe for them... i can´t even explain how... how i was there, how fortunate i was how i have such a great team that believes in me... you know and working in there... it´s us anyway... and you know nothing else matter... what happens after, what happens before, only matters what happens at that moment... there s lot of time of practice, there s lot of time after the show when i m thinking "now you must make it happen right now, can t be tomorrow, can t be an hour ago". It must be now! now!
-what s your name ?
-my name ? my name is Robert Irvine!
-is that your legal name ?
-as far as i m concerned, it is my legal name
- have you been to court to establish such a name?
- i didn t have to go to court to be called murphy or Jones or smith, excuse me to dismiss you this way
if a chinese person says he s called Patrick murphy, you look at him as he is insane, because Murphy is an irish name, a European name, or the name which has a Caucasian or a white background. And a Chinese is a yellow man, and he has nothing to do, no connection whatsoever with the name Murphy. And if it doesn t look proper for some one who is yellow, or Chinese, to be walking around with name like Murphy, Jones or Johnson, or Bunch or Power, i think it would be just as improper for a black person, for a so called negro in this country as we are told by this honorable Mohammad to walk around with these names, and therefore he teaches us that during slavery, the last slave master who owned us put his last name on us to denote that we were his property. for if you see a negro today who is named Johnson, if you go back in his history, you ll find that it was once his grandfather or one of his fore fathers was once owned by a white man named Johnson.
- would you mind telling us what your father s last name was.
- my father didn t know his last name. my father got his last name from his grand father, etc, who got it from his slave master. the real name of our people were destroyed.
- was there any line, any point in genealogy of your family where you did have to use the last name, and so what was it?
- the last name of my fore father was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves. and then, the name of the slave master was given, that we refuse, we reject this last name today
- you mean you won t even tell me what your father s supposed last name was, or gifted last name was?
- i ve never acknowledged it whatsoever.
Similarly, as soon as i act, as soon as i do something, this action dissolves into a common gesture, without beginning nor end. Here is music: this undecidable space in between the individual and the collective, which is forever the same, already known, and ready to be recognized, re-enacted, in an endless future.
This show is to be premiered in Aberdeen on 29th of october 2016, performed by the Red Note Ensemble.
In here, there is no video, but a lot of text and string instruments with a new shape. Actually not so new since most of them are from the Stroh family.
they are integrated into a paper scenography which tends to blur their limits.
Behind one can see a small pipe organ. There are two in total.
Here three organs are visible, but only two will be used in the end.
This is a name i´d lime to hold. And the function, of course.
The 3d aspect of the printed paper is meant to bring a floating effect on stage.
oh my gosh am i late? ! so much hard work!! all the time in rehearsal and....
and so much belief in ME!... and that they believe in me makes me believe for them... i can´t even explain how... how i was there, how fortunate i was how i have such a great team that believes in me... you know and working in there... it´s us anyway... and you know nothing else matter... what happens after, what happens before, only matters what happens at that moment... there s lot of time of practice, there s lot of time after the show when i m thinking "now you must make it happen right now, can t be tomorrow, can t be an hour ago". It must be now! now!
-what s your name ?
-my name ? my name is Robert Irvine!
-is that your legal name ?
-as far as i m concerned, it is my legal name
- have you been to court to establish such a name?
- i didn t have to go to court to be called murphy or Jones or smith, excuse me to dismiss you this way
if a chinese person says he s called Patrick murphy, you look at him as he is insane, because Murphy is an irish name, a European name, or the name which has a Caucasian or a white background. And a Chinese is a yellow man, and he has nothing to do, no connection whatsoever with the name Murphy. And if it doesn t look proper for some one who is yellow, or Chinese, to be walking around with name like Murphy, Jones or Johnson, or Bunch or Power, i think it would be just as improper for a black person, for a so called negro in this country as we are told by this honorable Mohammad to walk around with these names, and therefore he teaches us that during slavery, the last slave master who owned us put his last name on us to denote that we were his property. for if you see a negro today who is named Johnson, if you go back in his history, you ll find that it was once his grandfather or one of his fore fathers was once owned by a white man named Johnson.
- would you mind telling us what your father s last name was.
- my father didn t know his last name. my father got his last name from his grand father, etc, who got it from his slave master. the real name of our people were destroyed.
- was there any line, any point in genealogy of your family where you did have to use the last name, and so what was it?
- the last name of my fore father was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves. and then, the name of the slave master was given, that we refuse, we reject this last name today
- you mean you won t even tell me what your father s supposed last name was, or gifted last name was?
- i ve never acknowledged it whatsoever.
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