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Spinoza Is(s)t... Art Clay, Urs Jaeggi

Spinoza Is(s)t... Een al geruime tijd rondspokende theater-produktie die iets heeft met Spinoza.
A work for video based on the text "Spinoza is(s)t..." from the Swiss writer Urs Jaeggi. The point of departure for the video is that of speaking and listening and its opposite of censoring and  ignoring...

aldus is hier te lezen in een tekst bij de opvoering in 1999 van, ja van wat? Het gaat om een 'installatie-kunstprojekt' »Spinoza is(s)t« dat al enige tijd op de Bühne is. Er waren uitvoeringen in 2000. In okt. 2005 werd het opgevoerd tijdens »CAUTE Spinoza - Grenzgänge«  bij de viering van het 10-jarig bestaan van het Nederlands Huis in Münster zo ontdekte ik gisteren (zie hier). In dat programma werd het als volgt omschreven:

Art Clay (Basel) theater der neuen medien: »Spinoza is(s)t« - nach einem Text von Urs Jaeggi
Das ›theater der neuen medien‹ unter der Leitung von Art Clay (USA/CH) hat Spinoza als Hauptperson für seine Inszenierung nach einem Text von Urs Jaeggi gewählt. Eine Aufführung, die bereits für Furore gesorgt hat: Theater als Installation, als visuelles Brevier, Spinozas Philosophie und Leben als Fenster zur Gegenwart und zu aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Befindlichkeiten.

Hier het Programmheft met veel toelichting over Spinoza

Arthur Clay, born in New York, now lives in Basel and Berlin. He works on stage with music, video & performance. He specializes in self-written and self-performed works using a variety of contemporary artistic mediums. He has participated at international festivals, with radio and CD recordings in Europe, America and Asia. He has numerous works for partly self-invented electronic and acoustic musical instruments: in 1993/94 he designed the manually operated controller systems for STEIM in Amsterdam, 'Air-bow'- a virtual stringed instrument, 'Mirrorum'- an optical sound generator, 'Spaceball'- an intermedia-controller for live-video and electronic. He also produced radio plays and theatre productions with the Swiss writer Urs Jaeggi including 'Kantate und Aria für Glas' (1993), 'Gebrochene Worte' (National PEN meeting in Heidelberg 1996), 'Spinoza is(s)t', Theatre of New Media at the 'Städtische Bühnen' in Freiburg 2000: musical theatre with text from Alex Silber and Getrude Stein with the 'Gespannte Gefährten' (German tour 1996/97) and with Art Clay 'Musik für Dinge', culture article on '10 vor 10', (Swiss television programme aired in August 2000). [Van hier]

[Uit een TEXT BOOK]
Spinoza is(s)t.. is for three actors. The KIRCHE, the STAAT  and SPINOZA. The performance work takes place on a multi sided stage. There are three sides to it: The Church Side, the Step Side, and the Chalk Board Side.

TITEL: DESCARTE

STAGE:
Spinoza is sitting on  a  cube in Descart position. STAAT and KIRCHE are standing in the “background” by the Chalk Board.

LIGHTING:
The stage area is dark. (Only the light from the clock from the tower is shining.)

ACTION:
Spinoza is in the “Descarte” postion and is thinking.

Sound:
The sound of a ticking clock is to be heard.

Text:
None

etc... 

Er is een website Project Page Spinoza is(s)t... waar aanwijzingen voor uitvoerenden te downloaden zijn.

Art Clay & Erratum Ensemble (INT)
A 'Spinoza-Sammelsurium' for three actors, stage scenery, and live-electronics. Spinoza's journey as a philosopher forms the basic structure of the work. The journey is synaesthetically presented with text, music, object and actionism. A metamorphosis in light quantity and quality represents the various stations of Spinoza's life from his formative years until his banishment by Church, State and Synagogue. The text consists of a collage of texts by Urs Jaeggi and Spinoza. It is in German, but the language is only used to accompany the actions on stage and not to mediate meaning.

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En het heeft kennelijk iets, want het wordt nog steeds opgevoerd, zie

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