Excerpts of citation without context

The solo project Excerpts of citation without context by Winter Guests/Alan Lucien Øyen raised questions like; what is lost when words are wasted, and who profits when words are being saved?

In the search for a narrative tie-together of the piece, what is more daunting – incidents of context without citation, or excerpts of citation without context?

"We are what we consist of. How do we know then, that what we exist of is uniquely us? In the failure to put up filters to the information that threatens us from all sides, are we perhaps reaching the autistic moment: the point where the state of openness is so wide we become an outreach of everything around us. We become contagious with the information that runs through us. How do we know in the end, if the stream is of our own consciousness?"

Alan Lucien Øyen's delivery of the spoken word in a high-speed stream of consciousness was accompanied by a myriad of flickering video images in a piece which sat out to deal with our overexposure to information and the problems of accessibility.

"So I went to the museum and OD’ed on useless information. On details of clouds you can’t see. Portraits without subjects. Of empty single-coloured canvasses with only the brush strokes to account for questions raised by artists that I don't know.  I found a haven in the overload of bits and bites of undigested visuals from transferred dreams and thoughts that had no relevance but for what I made myself. Until they told me what it meant."

Excerpts of citation without context by Winter Guests/Alan Lucien Øyen was supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).

Sources:

BIT Teatergarasjen, bit-teatergarasjen.no, autumn program 2004, http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -archive

Winter Guests, winterguests.com, 10.03.2011, http://www.winterguests.com/dance/screened-out.html#fulltext