Narrative is a container. It carries threads from which a fabric of meaning and continuity can be woven by the navigator of the narrative. But the narrative cannot be pre-constructed. Because there is a necessary gap between transmission and reception. Whatever is transmitted is not received in that form. If a narrative is propagated, only a fragment of it is ever going to be grasped. Because immersion is a matter of degrees. And this degree determines the quality of experience. It is one thing…
Symbols are like alarms. Alarms demand attention. And when they do not get attention, they cause disruption in some way. Because a hunger for attention applies pressure. And not everyone can withstand this pressure. Actually most give way. When this giving away occurs, symbols become necessary and some are encoded or decoded. They can never be created or populated, they are always there. They just need to be actualized. Actualization occurs by the utilization, the ascription of a function, the…
Within the labour of reading is included a capacity to improvise. What can be read? Through which construction can a specific meaning be read? For something to be inferred, does something need to be written? Is the relationship between reading and writing direct and one that has a distinct co-relation? To figure this out, we decided to talk. We talked at length and for considerable time but hoped for the conversation to have a clear lead-in and lead-out. But this did not happen. The…
We realize that performance and the script are related in an inseparable way. Unless you script, it will not be experienced. Experience depends on a kind of stating and scripts somehow manage to state. Stating does not mean closing all possibilities for emergence. Brackets can be stated, explosives can be embedded. The landscape is for being taken. It does not exist for any other reason. When empty brackets are stated, the performer and the script need to have a degree of trust between them.…
We do not wish for anything. Because anything that we wish for becomes a thorn in our eye. And prevents experience from transgressing ordinariness. Wishes are suction pumps. They take us away from the pain of dealing with the here and now. The here and now is a jumble. It is a mess. It is a hassle. Why can't we just deal with it? If we wish to deal with our situation, we have to create distance. We have to develop the ability to instrumentalise ourselves. And that is just impossible. No amount…
