Klang und Bewegung: Eine organlose Performance (original) (raw)

“A Performance without Organs” is the final work of the Master’s program in Sound Studies of the Univerty of Arts Berlin of Marcello Lussana, aka Erased Bodies. Starting point of the performance is the movement of the dancer, Nils Freyer, that can influence the Music and the text “Body without Organs” of Gilles Deleuze. Fundamental is the Interaction between different disciplines – Philosophy, Dance and Music – that are continuously in communication and in exchange. The static concepts of representation and identity are brought into question and “concepts in movement” are established. This work is the theoretical basis for the dance performance, which uses the technology of motion tracking. Thereby human movement can control and generate music. The artwork thus consists of a variety of knowledge, it is a collaboration of various artistic dimensions. To facilitate this interaction, all participants had to change their ways of working, giving up their single identity as musicians, dancers, choreographers and technicians. The work of Gilles Deleuze is about creating an alternative to the concepts of identity and representation. The thought is dynamic, ie it cannot be represented with a static image. Deleuze therefore offers some concepts in movement, which have become the tools of this work: • the rhizome as a complex, non-hierarchical structure of knowledge • the body without organs as exercise, practice, that extract the oneness of the organism • Difference and Repetition as independent explanation of reality It is therefore examined the relationship between the performance and the theory of Deleuze. The concepts in movement of Deleuze materialize themselves in the performance. The body without organs is the practice of withdrawal, which produces the multiplicity. Difference and Repetition explain them in themselves: they become autonomous concepts of thinking and doing. The performance without Organs shows how music and movement have to remove their identity, their unity in order to work together. Three bodies are taking part in this interaction: the body of music, technology and dance (together with choreography). All three leave behind their closed identities, open themselves and take advantage of the gained flexibility in order to put the elements of the performance in a constant variation. The work is written in German.