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Margareth Kaserer <[email protected]> Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:51 PM
To: Bart Van den Eynde <[email protected]>, Sven Goyvaerts <[email protected]>,
Alessandra Coppola <[email protected]>, Phillipe Severyns <[email protected]>,
Marilyne Grimmer <[email protected]>, Caroline Daisch <[email protected]>, Vladimir Miller
<[email protected]>, Elke Van Campenhout <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodolphe Coster <[email protected]>, Esther Severi <[email protected]>, marion
oberhofer <[email protected]>, Michiel Reynart <[email protected]>, louise chardon
Dear Vladimir, dear all,
my research in a.pass is on „the unconscious“. I follow two main paths: one theoretical (Lacan,
discussions on the topic with colleagues, philosophers, psychotherapists) and one practical (research on
artists, who worked on the unconscious; trying to track a physical unconscious – confrontation with my
desire for physical pain / sessions with the dancer Louise Chardon; experimentation with different art
forms like video). I'm unsatisfied about this separation, but don't know any solution yet.
In general my research is quite personal, it focuses on my own fears and desires, which I am constantly
trying to understand since 5 years in psychotherapy. The „talking cure“ solved some knots, but others
were completely unattended, for example the lack of touch and physicality in my childhood and again
during the therapy process. In a.pass I'm now just following my desire to attend knowledge about touch,
movement and physicality.
The problem is that I can join the settlement only every mo, tue and wed, on the other days I have to
work in Antwerp. I hope, this is ok.
PLAN FOR THE TWO WEEKS IN KAAI.STUDIOS:
1) I'd like to see our shared ground in the Kaai-Studios as a productive play-ground. On a playground we
are invited to interact with objects and people, to move and be moved (by objects and people), to find new
friends and new favourite toys. I've already invited friends to come and asked them to invest something in
the settlement or the discussion about it.
Thinking the settlement as rhizom: “Auch der Bau der Tiere ist in all seinen Funktionen rhizomorph, als
Wohnung, Vorratslager, Bewegungsraum, Versteck und Ausgangspunkt.” (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari:
Tausend Plateaus. Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie. Berlin: Merve 1992. S. 16)
"The building of the animals in all of its functions is rhizomorph, as home, reservoir storage, movement
space, hiding and starting point." How could a settlement fulfill these functions?
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2) I believe in the necessity of communication and sharing, of opening ourselves to the unknown, but I'm
standing somehow in my own way because of symptoms of social phobia, which often shows itself in
group situations. Therefore I make a psychotherapy.
I filmed myself during a therapy-session via Skype, and slowed the footage extremely down, until the
voices are consisting merely of deep basses. While hearing this sound, I had the idea to make a musicpiece out of it. During these weeks I would like to invite musicians like my colleague of a.pass Rodolphe
Coster. DANCE TO YOUR SYMPTOM!
3) I defend my inner pain, cause it gives me strong sensations, a strong sensation of aliveness. Pain has
become my tender loved companion. I painted my pain in skin-color and black, I tried to dress it in a
fashionable manner, to wrap it and caress it. My pain was at the same time the barrier between and the
opener to the others. Understandings were prevented by the presence of that barrier. Pain was my
second skin. Every undressing was incomplete, cause I always wore my heavy, with my skin fused dress.
The tries to take it off caused just more pain.
I would like to create a dress, a long, majestic dress with many layers, made by skin (or something that
looks like skin), and skin-colored, with a huge hood. This skin-dress stands for my second skin, which I
would like to get rid of, my skin of pain. [Maybe I can find somebody from the Antwerp Fashion
Departement who can help me doing that]. The dress has to be made of many different parts, held
together by zippers, and from which I can get rid of subsequently. [I imagine a performance that enacts an
undressing from that skin]
Literature on the topic: Didier Anzieu, Le Moi-Peau
4) I would like to question my desire to touch. Touching skin and being touched by strangers creates very
ambivalent feelings in me, a insecure touch feels almost as an insult, a secure touch awakens deeper desires. How to overcome this hierarchical division of touch?
Erin Manning writes: “Touch is the act of reaching toward, of creating space-time through the worlding that
occurs when bodies move. Touch, seen this way, is not simply an addendum to an already-stable body.”
The desire of reaching toward – toward what? Being part of something, inhabiting a space, even creating
one. In that sense we should increase an awareness about our moving bodies who create the settlement.
Manning: “The proposition is that touch—every act of reaching toward —enables the creation of worlds.
This production is relational. I reach out to touch you in order to invent a relation that will, in turn, invent
me. To touch is to engage in the potential of an individuation. Individuation is understood throughout as
the capacity to become beyond identity. We individuate inventively. Relationally, we engage in
individuations that require difference and repetition. Without difference that repeats, we foreclose the
process, returning the body to territorialization, national body-politics, stable genders, political consensus.”
“At its most political, to reach toward is to create a concept for unthinking the individual as a discrete
entity. Sensing bodies in movement are not individual bodies; their individuations are always collective.”
It would be interesting to make the experiment of a discussion in movement.
Many regards & best wishes for 2011,
Margareth
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