outside light (Page 256)

outside light

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… like a mask they then forget they are wearing

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it’s there but it’s pretending to be something else. … – Mask, Ferdinand Khnopff, c.1897 Someone, more free or accursed than the rest of us, suddenly sees (though even he only sees it rarely) that everything we are is

the death of God is the death of Man, and so on

I considered that God, because unlikely, just might exist and might therefore deserve to be adored, but that Humanity, being a mere biological idea designating nothing more than the human race itself, was no more deserving of adoration than any other animal species. This worship of Humanity, with its rituals

I do not stand corrected

There is no stricter moralist than Fear; and no moralist is a stranger to Fear. – Declan Donnellan, The Actor and the Target, Theatre Communications Group, London, 2005, p. 36 – Kaloust Guedel’s All Men are Created Alike

to free art from lying and violence

– Isaac Ilyich Levitan’s portrait of his friend Anton Chekhov. Levitan greeted Chekhov with, Are you there, crocodile? Levitan 1860-1900 I went home and fell asleep trying to read The Brothers Karamazov. Oh dear, oh dear. He sits downstage of his desk. So long-winded and indelicate. Too pretentious. Writers like

what is called freedom is found in space by Laika

The best tickets in town at the moment are … [Moscow, February 1998] meditations on the classics clog the vacuum into which new writing might have rushed since 1990. This lack of creative nerve is typical of what is called freedom; but while Russia waits for its new agonies to find

Forms that turn: the Biennale & WYD, Sydney

– an aboriginal walking Jesus outside the MCA blesses you Sydney was hosting two major events during our visit, 12-19 July. The series of ‘Jesus Walks’ statues placed in small groups, usually trinities, around the city seemed to serve as the intersection between the two and suffered from the same strange

posabilities / compossibles

1. durational – time – Tim Etchells provides this note on Forced Entertainment’s durational performances. KA MOUNTAIN and GUARDenia Terrace, staged in Iran by Robert Wilson and The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, took 7 days. Wilson was incarcerated on drugs’ charges during the rehearsal period. Artists and writers, Henry Miller