This is how you will disappear

In This is how you will disappear Gisèle Vienne has attempted to unify the seemingly opposite ideas via examining the Apollonian and the Dionysian as found in Nietzsche’s philosophy about the way they cancel each other out in tragedy.

Dionysus' divine destiny unifies the creative intoxication and the fundamental suffering making life a tragedy. Only the Apollonian seductive, but cool betrayal (clarity) can maintain a balance against the abyss of perdition.

The landscape of This is how you will disappear by Gisèle Vienne consists of fog sculptures by the 78 year old master Fujiko Nakaya, and video works by Shiro Takatani from the Japanese performance movement Dumb Type. In fusion with Dennis Cooper’s disturbing text, the expanding metal-referencing sound image of Stephen O´Malley and Peter Rehberg plus the puppets and the actors, This is how you will disappear stands as a total art work ending in a hold of terror, a nightmare-like feeling of lust, and death. In this contemporary myth about the battle between strong forces, the amorality of nature wins.

Gisèle Vienne has her background from philosophy and École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières. She has produced a series of dystopian and solid production over a decade. Jonathan Capdevielle and Dennis Cooper are her regular collaboration partners.

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BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2011. 22.02.2011: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/379