“You Will Not Believe the Things I’ve Seen”

Performance by Daniel Reshef-Delman

THURSDAY, MAY 28TH | 18:15 - 18:35 | ZAAL 3

A word is said, a body moves, an image formed. This epistemological trio spreads its roots across the stage: the voices, fragmented and tangled together, illuminate potential beings in potential orders. The limbs, tragically committed to the laws of physics, try to chase and capture all the imagery that rains upon them, to load it with vivacity. The mind (and this is when you come into the picture) is a vessel. I think you brought it here, into my net of associated play-things, to have it filled. So, if you wish, I offer that you fill it with my nightmares. 

This might come as a shock - I will not assume here that you’ve ever seen the skies burning. I will not assume that you have any interest in seeing that. I wouldn’t like to try to teach you about fire and the atmosphere. I wouldn’t like to try to teach you about waking up at 2 am from an alarm. Instead, I offer you my share of fear and madness. Instead, I offer you a barrel of refined experiences. If you’d like, I welcome you to take a shot.  

“You Will Not Believe the Things I’ve Seen” is a text-movement performance, written and performed using various techniques for intuitive and improvisational content generation. These are all part of research about the associative force of language and the emergence of new worlds from it. Worlds that, in this performance, are rooted in the daily, nurtured by the violent, and lifted to the bizarre.