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A transcript of Philipp Gehmacher's walk+talk no. 5 |
| Author(s): Philipp Gehmacher | |
| First published in: www.philippgehmacher.net, March 2008 | |
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In March 2008, ten ... ten choreographers came together to engage in this idea of ... of walk and talk. How to ... how to speak about yet actually more over to or with your body-in-motion. How can you make sense of your own physicality and how can you speak about it? There’s always a moment where that chest, those air-filled lungs, that panning motion ... A protruding chest pushing forward, just ... pans towards the front ... and the neck ... I pull myself into the vertical image. I look at you ... I don’t see you ... I don’t know who you are. I don’t care. I know you are here. And your gaze is onto me ... on me. I need you to be there as my representative, rendering me object. Movement (on the floor) How to get up from the floor? Somehow by standing up from the floor the body reveals itself, mechanics of the body get revealed. And after those years of horizontal expressivity, I was only left with the vertical upright image ... The verticality of theatre ... And I tried to understand this verticality in relationship to the perpendicularity of architectural surroundings ... and how my body would be placed within that without being swallowed up ... there was a piece where I just right put myself right here for eight minutes ... and there was a piece and I just stood there leaning forward ... Just trying to be that super-subject with my whole coordinates ... Movement (turning) After that time of trying to be super-subject always having that protruding chest ... sending through space ... walking forward. I ... felt, I mean ... you go here, the important moment is here and you do your thing ... and you go ... you go over there and you do that other thing and then you think ... what has changed? Sometimes it feels that nothing has changed and my own kinespheric space is still the same, although I changed place and ... when I found myself in that panning motion, I was somehow relieved because I felt by turning that kinesphere, that limit of the kinesphere was erased. And ... it felt like I was in touch with the whole space ... and the world became my kinesphere. Movement (on all fours) Being on all fours ... I kind of encountered ... or initiated ... my interest in ... the mixture of a sensory, felt sense, pre-emptying, pre-conceiving ... instant composition. Because it’s easier and on all fours you have the gravitational pull and just to work with time ... The gesture ... or my gesture ... I found myself in that ... Somebody said to me that all you do is gesture, you don’t do much else ... and I realised that its kind of true and the interest in that is ... I see my gestures in analogy to verbal language. Its always an ... – ex. And the shoulder plays an important part ... it’s like the shoulder is the intermediary, interlocutor ... it could be, can be either with the upper body ... with the arm. It’s like a pin-ball-machine that has some form of crossing that ... organs can be thrown up through your arms into your hands. And those fingers ... those singed fingers did eventually actually start to reach out and touch that boundary and ... the extended arm appeared. I walked to the front. I put myself next to David and I just placed that straight arm next to him closing that intersubjective gap between us and ... touched his shoulder. I put myself right in front of him like if I were to choke him ... with that now weapon-arm and the hand just slides down his arm into his right hand. Between them ... Movement (gesture as signs) Here, I never know whether that’s my movement at all. Actually it’s just a tribute. I know that this is the moment where I have to accept the place I’m in ... I want to let you know that I ... cherish and honour ... Thank you for listening. |
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| Website Company / Production House: http://www.philippgehmacher.net | |
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Contextual Note: This transcript was republished on the occasion of the second "walk+talk" series organized by Philipp Gehmacher at Kaaistudio's in Brussels, 15-19 March 2011. |
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