[-empyre-] Re: glorious pit of language

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

Surfing emails this morning, I found this story.  Think about language:
blurred boundary conditions: performance and duplicities...excerpts follow:


------ Forwarded Message

From: Mirjam Struppek <struppek@yahoo.com>


Yesterday I busted into a club in Berlin, the 'Red
Saloon'. I expected some sort of transgression in this
place, nothing extremely shocking but from the name of
the place it sounded like I should have expected, you
know, something..
When I stepped into the entrance I could hear a
Chinese song from my position, which was three floors
down from the main room with the music. I thought
'Maybe this is an interval'.

When I arrived in the room I realised it wasn't
Chinese, but German and that the music was far from
being an intro or an interval between two other songs,
it was twist from the 60s.
It's incredible how differently we can perceive things
from what they are in the reality. Most important from
this experience is the fact that a language has become
like any other language. When we talk we use at least
four different languages (as in both speaking and
moving) in one time and everybody understands us. What
I'm trying to say is that it has become very difficult
to distinguish objects, art, music, languages, because
the differences aren't clear anymore, but blurred...

 The artist
Alexander Györfi finds himself in this state of
multiplicity. On one side there is the
straightforwardness of his background which underlines
the whole process of his work that brings him on the
other side, where the mystery and ambiguity of the
final result stands. ...

In the first room, in fact, you can see his
streamlined, finish, clean paintings of instruments,
recording equipments, objects that take part in the
artist's everyday life. In the second room we see a
video which is conceived with the purpose of
resembling like a music video clip made with two girls
whom relationship and identity remains unknown to us,
especially the position of the 'China Girl'. But still
the image of the individual's duplicity comes up. The
video allows us to look only through the other girl's
eyes, the singer of the song who becomes immediately
more human in our head as we acknowledge what her
dreams and her passions are. She shows us her both
sides, by both sides I mean a girl living her normal
life in one moment and a girl dressing up ready to
perform in the next. We still don't know who she is
and what is she doing in the video. She is not a real
singer, for example, but she steps inside the role of
a singer. This is what the artist is playing with:
normal people he knows who have also a strong willing
to change their lives but, on the other hand, they are
scared to throw themselves into a world, known by
everyone, as 'cruel and beautiful'. So they experiment
it bifore between each other and they play with it to
see how far they can go.


------ Forwarded Message

From: Mirjam Struppek <struppek@yahoo.com>


Alexander Györfi, born 1968 in Sindelfingen, lives and
works in Stuttgart and Berlin.

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