The Wailing Walls by Maska Ljubljana

ZID OBJOKOVANJA THE WAILING WALL

Maska - APT Ljubljana, Novo mesto, 2011

CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 7.038.5(497.4) ZID objokovanja = The wailing wall / [uredila Janez Janša, Maja Murnik ; avtorji fotografij Borut Peterlin, Igor Omahen, Miha Fras]. - Ljubljana : Maska ; Novo mesto : Anton Podbevšek teater, 2011 ISBN 978-961-6572-23-1 (Maska) 1. Vzp. stv. nasl. 2. Hrvatin, Emil 256049664

VSEBINA / CONTENT Blaž Lukan: Ko zid joče z(a) nami 7

Blaž Lukan: When The Wall Wails With (For) Us 15

Barbara Orel: Kabinet solz 25

Barbara Orel: Cabinet of Tears 37

Marina Gržinić: Kabinet spominov 51

Marina Gržinić: The Cabinet of Memories 59

O avtorjih / About the Contributors 66

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Blaž Lukan

KO ZID JOČE Z(A) NAMI Se je od leta 1998, ko je bil izveden »izvirnik« solzedajalske akcije, tedaj v avtorstvu Emila Hrvatina in poimenovan Kabinet spominov, pa do danes, ko mu je dodana še instalacija »zidu objokovanja«, kakor se pričujoča nova »rekonstrukcija« (bolje: ponovna uprizoritev) »novega« avtorja Janeza Janše tudi imenuje, kaj spremenilo?1 Na prvi pogled ne: še vedno jokamo (ali tudi ne) v kabinetih (zdaj lakrimatorijih)2 individualnega, kolektivnega ali fiziološkega spomina, nabiramo solze v posebna očala in jih nato darujemo organizatorjem, ki jih bodo arhivirali iz izključno estetskih in ne morda znanstvenih razlogov.3 Še vedno se sprašujemo o fenomenu joka oziroma solz kot njegove vidne manifestacije, njegovega »izločka«, katerega nastanek je povezan s specifično fiziološko oziroma psihološko ali emotivno situacijo in njenimi dražljaji, do katerih se ne moremo dokopati po nobeni drugi poti.4 In še vedno se v tem intimnem performativnem dogodku »samouprizarjamo«, »igramo« sami pred seboj, sami sebe ali svojo vlogo, in z obema se spopadamo – tudi ob pomoči vidnih stimulusov, ki so v prostoru kolektivnega spomina danes podobni kot nekoč – v navidez tako zasebnem dejanju, kot je jok oziroma izločanje solz.5 8

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Zaznamo pa lahko – na kratko rečeno – dve (preimenovanje avtorja obeh postavitev pustimo tu ob strani)6 očitni razliki. Prva se tiče samega joka in njegovega avtentičnega telesnega proizvoda, solz. Kot da projekt v novem tisočletju izgublja tisto igrivost, duhovitost, domiselnost, ki jo je prinašal s sabo v starem, kot da današnje solze niso več iste kot nekdanje. A na srečo pri tem ne izgublja nič bistvenega, nasprotno, pomembnejše je tisto, kar pridobiva, čeprav je manj lahkotno in bolj obvezujoče. V lakrimatoriju nenadoma kakor da nismo več sami, čeprav nas pri našem opravku s solzami ne gleda nobeno zunanje oko. Problematizacija fenomena intime in stika s seboj je močnejša kot nekoč, prav tako samoumevnost občutka zunanjega nadzora, ki kljub nasprotnim zagotovilom ne izgine.7 Izvabljanje solz iz lastne psihe (fizis tu niti ni toliko pomemben) se nam tudi ne zdi več svojevrstna emotivna tekma s samim seboj, temveč veliko bolj eksistencialna izkušnja, ki si v premislek jemlje tako lastno subjektivnost kot objektivnost sveta, iz katerega nas lakrimatorij za hip iztrga.8 Ne gre samo za 13 let razlike med obema dogodkoma in zorenje samega udeleženca, »avtoperformerja« tega dogodka, temveč za razliko v časih oz. kontekstih, ki zaznamuje obe »izvedbi« akcije in ki se zdi tako očitna, čeprav jo na tem mestu lahko samo enigmatično nakažemo.

Druga razlika je nova kontekstualizacija nekdanjega »kabineta«, postavitev Zidu objokovanja, skulpture, sestavljene iz ledenih blokov, devettonske »kopije« znanega jeruzalemskega »izvirnika«, ki se nekaj korakov stran od prvega dela akcije (izvedene v knjižnici Mirana Jarca v Novem mestu) neusmiljeno tali zaradi sončnih žarkov in visoke temperature.9 Zid je na prvi pogled samozadostna skulptura, v nekem segmentu še projekcijska površina, vendar komunicira tudi z »gledalcem«, saj mu daje možnost, da pred živo, hladno, belo ledeno gmoto postoji – ponovno – soočen s samim seboj in da med taleče se ledene kvadre vstavi listek z zapisano željo, opravek z njo in vsem, kar ji pritiče, pa namesto lastnim (ne)zavednim mehanizmom prepusti temu asociativnemu umetniškemu objektu, ki zdaj joče »namesto« njega, trpi namesto nas.10 Če je slišati patetično, je občutek napačen; zid objokovanja je tu definiran predvsem s fizikalnimi oz. meteorološkimi zakonitostmi, možnosti in asociacije, ki jih ponuja, pa so izključno stvar gledalca oz. udeleženca akta estetske participacije.11 In na tej točki lahko zaznamo nek podoben »dramatični« poudarek, ki se povezuje z zgoraj omenjenim premikom v novo »težo« celotnega dogodka, formuliramo pa ga lahko kot serijo temeljnih vprašanj, kot npr.: V kakšnem prostoru se znajdemo, ko manifestacijam, kot je pričujoča, odvzamemo obstret zgolj-estetskega? Kakšno je naše mesto v prostoru 10

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(bio)političnega, ki se po tem posegu razpre? In kaj razen tega, da v razpoko v zidu zarinemo svojo okorno formulirano željo, sploh še lahko storimo, da bi ohranili vsaj občutek, da participiramo tudi v svetu, ki se razpira v prostoru »za zidom« oz. »pred« njim?12 – Preprosto, a slikovito in učinkovito.

Opombe: 1 Za primerjavo navajamo naš zapis o Kabinetu spominov iz leta 1998. »Kabinet spominov je gledališka (»solzodajalska«) akcija, ki sodi v sklop večrazsežnostnega projekta z naslovom Camillo, imenovanega po renesančnem geniju, po mnenju avtorja Emila Hrvatina predhodniku interneta. Akcija je bila izvedena v prostorih Slovenskega gledališkega muzeja, v produkciji Društva B-51 in v okviru festivala Exodos. V umetnosti je mogoče darovati tudi solze, ki jih pravzaprav nihče ne potrebuje, oziroma se ta »potreba« manifestira zgolj v polju estetskega. Darovanje solz pomeni (re)teoretizacijo in instrumentalizacijo dejanja, ki je neločljivi del gledalske percepcije, zlasti pri sprejemanju gledališča s poudarjeno čustveno noto (ganljivka ali melodrama); jokamo pa lahko seveda tudi »kar tako«. Nedvomno ima tudi ta »kar tako« racionalno podlago in razlago. Hrvatin je »razloge« za jok tematiziral v tri relacijske sklope: individualnega, kolektivnega in fiziološkega. Tako v treh ločenih prostorih ponuja obiskovalcem (solzodajalcem) možnost joka oziroma solzenja ob soočenju z lastno, individualno izkušnjo oziroma spominom nanjo, ob ogledu in podoživetju serije travmatičnih kolektivnih podob ali zgolj s pomočjo fiziološke stimulacije solzilnih žlez in kanalov, kjer spomin v bistvu sploh ni več potreben. Odziv na akcijo je prepuščen posamezniku – to je slejkoprej »predstava« intimnega gledališča, v kateri je gledalec sam protagonist (v nekoliko futurističnih ambientih komunicira samo s hostesami oziroma računalnikom, občutljivim na njegov dotik) in gledalec (če odštejemo prikrito oko, ki ga opazuje v prostoru fiziološkega spomina ...), goli funkcionalizem akta dajalstva pa je pri solzodajalstvu presežen z estetsko ali gledališko formo oziroma aktom performativnosti. Táko soočenje s samim seboj ali svojo »množico« pa nima ritualnega, religioznega ali celo »metafizičnega« naboja, kakor ga imajo podobna zunajumetnostna intimna dejanja (globoka žalost, objokovanje umrlih, spoved, globinska terapija, erotični akt ipd.); solze sicer pritečejo, vendar samo kot posledica s(t)imulacije in instrumentalizacije človekove psihofiziološke pritikline. V komori spomina (pa tudi že med čakanjem na donacijo) obleti »lacrimadonatorja« celo spoznanje, da je jok v veliki meri racionalna zadeva in da je morda smeh tisti, ki ga ni mogoče s(t)imulirati, vendar tudi ne prestreči v kakršnakoli očala z minizbiralniki na dnu ... Kabinet spominov je vsekakor izvirna in domiselna gledališka manifestacija (neke vrste avtoperformans), prijazna do udeleženca in instruktivna za njegove ustvarjalce.« 2 Asociacija na »laboratorij«. 3 Arhiv solz je hkrati estetski arhiv, zbirka človeških izločkov kot najbolj sublimnega ekstrakta človekovega čustvovanja, in transumetniški, antropološki arhiv, zbirka DNA zapisov, vsebovanih v encimih in proteinih. O razlogih za arhiviranje lahko samo ugibamo, pogodba oz. potrdilo, s katerim smo solze prepustili producentu, o tem ne govori. Morda smo se kot gledalci ujeli v (navidez) estetsko past, čeprav nas o drugačni naravi dogodka obvešča že njegov podnaslov: »solzedajalska akcija«, ki neizbežno asociira na »krvodajalsko akcijo«, kjer darujemo kri v humanitarne (beri: medicinske) namene. Estetska narava dogodka se definira prav skozi namen donacije: ustanovitev arhiva solz, pri čemer pa drugi nameni, kot rečeno, ki jim solze – tudi same arhiv (genskega zapisa) – lahko služijo, niso jasni. Naše sodelovanje v resnici temelji na zaupanju, čeprav zanj podpišemo »potrdilo« oz. pogodbo; a če smo povsem natančni, tudi naše sodelovanje pri darovanju krvi temelji na zaupanju, saj nimamo nobenega trdnega zagotovila, da bo naša kri res uporabljena v ustrezne namene. 4 Zveza med jokom in solzami je seveda arbitrarna: jočemo lahko tudi brez solz in solze so lahko tudi rezultat zgolj fiziološke situacije, brez kakršne koli povezave z jokom kot psihološko kategorijo; zanimiva je tudi sintagma »točiti krvave solze«, kjer solze zamenja kri. 5 Natančnejša primerjava med nekdanjo in današnjo zbirko kolektivnih (arhe)tipov, ki nam jih ponuja prostor kolektivnega spomina, bi pokazala, da je (čustveni) jok – in z njim solze – historična kategorija: v različnih zgodovinskih obdobjih jokamo različno, performativna vrednost joka(nja) se spreminja, didaskalija ali napotek »joče« v kontekstu dramskega gledališča zahteva

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natančno analizo. Določeno »zgodovino joka« nam ponuja tudi dvočleno zaporedje, ki ga s svojo rekonstrukcijo ustvarja Janez Janša: iz nekdanjega internega »kabineta spominov«, ki aludira na naše individualno ali kolektivno nezavedno, se zdaj selimo pred eksterni »zid objokovanja«, ki močneje izpostavlja politično dimenzijo performativne instalacije. 6 Preimenovanje puščamo ob strani zgolj iz ekonomičnih razlogov. Sicer je veliko pomembnejše, kot se zdi na prvi pogled: »zasebni« Emil Hrvatin iz leta 1998 je zdaj (točneje: že leta 2007) postal »javni« Janez Janša, svoje »intimno« ime je zamenjal s »serialnim«, iz »kabinetnega« umetnika se je spremenil v »graditelja zidov« s političnim učinkom. Razlika je produktivna. 7 Zagotovila o tem, da smo v lakrimatorijih resnično sami, dajejo hostese, ki nas na dogodku pričakajo in vodijo. Sami lakrimatorija nismo preiskali, saj – ponovno – ustvarjalcem zaupamo. Fenomen zaupanja je v umetnosti romantična kategorija, ki jo sodobne performativne prakse problematizirajo in nadomeščajo z vzpostavljanjem pogodbenega odnosa, ki je rezultat pogajanj med ustvarjalcem in recipientom. Prostori umetnosti že dolgo tudi niso več prostori varnosti; morda zdaj velja prav nasprotno. 8 Namesto »iztrga« bi lahko rekli tudi »še močneje položi«. V lakrimatorijih smo namreč soočeni z lastno fiziologijo, z lastnim samodejnim telesom, na katerega delovanje sicer lahko delno vplivamo, vendar ne v meri, ki bi bila adekvatna našemu suverenemu prepričanju o popolnem obvladovanju lastnega telesa oz. življenja. Zavest o fiziološkem telesu, ki pred nami proizvaja svoje lastne ekskremente, za katere sicer radi izjavljamo, da so popolnoma »naši«, pa nas potemtakem položi v »demokratično« skupnost vsega živega kot neizstopajoči, enakovredni, »nezavestni« del. Razočaranje je neizbežno, a produktivno. 9 Akt taljenja ledu je vpisan v samo njegovo naravo. Gradnja zidu iz ledenih kock se razlikuje od gradnje zidu iz kamnitih blokov. Kamniti zid je namenjen trajanju, ledeni zid minevanju, kamniti zid sega v višino, v zrak, ledeni zid se tali navzdol, v tla. Seveda pri tem ne smemo pozabiti na klimatske, meteorološke okoliščine: v krajih z nižjimi temperaturami se zid tali počasneje oziroma se sploh ne, je trden in tako rekoč »večen« kakor kamniti. Podobno, čeprav v manjši meri, velja za kamniti zid: tudi ta je podvržen eroziji, izpiranju in tudi kamnina – spet odvisno od nahajališča – sčasoma preperi. A v fenomenološki zavesti obstaja razlika: kamniti zid je simbol trdnosti in trajanja, ledeni negotovosti in minevanja. V zid iz ledu je že v izhodišču vpisana zavest o koncu, o njegovem izginotju, kamniti zid pa implicira večni začetek ali vsaj zanesljivo pričevanje o njem. Ima pa zid iz ledu določeno prednost pred kamnitim: sicer je tudi ta še vedno odvisna od klimatskih okoliščin, vendar se ledeni zid veliko lažje izmakne političnim vplivom, saj se po možnosti pred vsako nasilno politično reakcijo »reši«, torej stali in brez sledu ponikne v podlago. Kamniti zidovi (v taki ali drugačni obliki) pa so veliko bolj kakor meteorološkim podvrženi političnim vplivom. In zid iz ledu kot estetsko-politična efemerida je vselej tako estetsko kot »etično« čistejši od kamnitega, saj se – kot specifičen zaslon, ki zrcali vsakokratno politično stvarnost – zadovolji z majhno, a intenzivno količino zrcaljenega sveta, kamniti zid pa je obsojen na stoletne trke s svetom, ki jih sicer vzdrži, vendar pri tem (po možnosti) izgublja svojo izvirno identiteto. Po drugi strani je zid iz ledu veliko prosojnejši – tudi dobesedno – od kamnitega, ki je vselej palimpsest kot tak. 10 Povezava med ledom oz. vodo in solzami se zdi arbitrarna, čeprav vzbuja poetične asociacije: morda pa so tekočina, ki je zamrznjena oz. obdelana v ledene bloke, prav (naše) solze … A ne gre za to, povezava je globlja: če jo najdemo v relaciji med jokom oz. solzami in (našo) željo, potem nas zid, ki izginja in ga v nekem trenutku potemtakem ni več, deklariran pa je kot zid objokovanja, torej nedvoumno povezan z našo željo, sooča z njeno najglobljo naravo. Zid je neke vrste freudovski (z)id, neprevedljiva besedna igra, ki pa s svojim nehotenim izrekom pokaže prav na njegovo resnično naravo. Za razliko od kamnitega (jeruzalemskega) zidu, ki je zid molitve in vere, je ledeni zid ravno nasprotno, zid odpovedi in dvoma. To pa je situacija, ki se zdi za čas, ki ga živimo, produktivnejša od »izvirne«. 11 Omeniti moramo še neko dejstvo, ki ostaja enkratnemu »obiskovalcu« zidu praviloma prikrito (tudi sam sem se ga zavedel šele po ogledu fotografij zidu v različnih fazah »razpadanja«): zid se pod vplivom temperature spreminja, vsak hip je pravzaprav drugačen in je kot tak eminentni performativni objekt, ki pred gledalcem (točneje: pred novimi in novimi gledalci) nenehno

»igra«, izvaja svoj vztrajni performans minevanja, transformira se v svojo elementarno snov, vodo, ki se vrača tja, od koder je prišla, v tla. Zid objokovanja je pravzaprav paradoksen: je performans trajanja, a to trajanje je končno, saj ko se zadnji kubični milimeter zidu stali, ostane zgolj še njegova sled (»solza« kot sled), zgolj zapis v arhivu spomina njegovih prič. Led kot tranzitivno agregatno stanje vode postaja performativna snov in se s tem pridružuje drugim »materialom«, ki že imajo legitimno mesto v sodobnih performativnih praksah. 12 Ponudba za formulacijo gledalčeve želje je v resnici performativni trik: gledalec, ki bi spremljal performans od začetka do konca, bi v trenutku, ko bi se led stalil do kraja, pred seboj našel zgolj neugleden kup lističev ali epruvet z zapisanimi željami vseh, ki so si dogodek ogledali, grmado ali gomilo (lakrimatorij zdaj asociira na »krematorij«) nemogočih želja, ki bodo sicer prav tako našle mesto v nekakšnem »arhivu«, vendar dobesedno iztrgane tako iz religioznega kot estetskega konteksta, zgolj kot potešitev želje avtorja akcije, neke vrste performativnega »boga« … - Nasedli smo svoji lastni želji in zídu res ne preostane drugega, kot da se razjoče nad nami!

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Blaž Lukan

WHEN THE WALL WAILS WITH (FOR) US Has anything changed since 1998, when the “original” tear donation event by Emil Hrvatin, entitled The Cabinet of Memories, was performed, to this day, when it has been supplemented by the installation “the wailing wall”, which is also the title of the new “reconstruction” (or better yet: re-enactment) by the “new” author, Janez Janša?1 Not at first sight: we still cry (or not) in the cabinets (now lacrimatoriums)2 of individual, collective and physiological memory, we collect tears in specially designed spectacles and donate them to the organisers who will archive them for exclusively aesthetic and not for eventually scientific purposes.3 We still wonder about the phenomenon of crying and tears as evident manifestations, about the “secretion” attributable to a specific physiological or emotional situation and related stimuli that cannot be experienced otherwise.4 And in this intimate performative event, we still “self-perform”, we “play” to ourselves our own selves or our role, and confront both of them – also with the help of visual stimuli, which are, in today’s collective memory, similar to what they used to be in the past – in such an apparently private act as crying or the secretion of tears.5 16

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Although, we may observe – in short – two (leaving out the fact that the author of both productions officially changed his name)6 evident differences. The first refers to crying itself and its authentic physical product – tears. It seems as if the project in the new millennium suffers the loss of that particular friskiness, humour and ingenuity characteristic of the former one – as if today’s tears are no longer the same as they used to be. But luckily, this doesn’t make it short on anything essential; on the contrary, what it does acquire is even more important, although it might be less comfortable and more compelling. It suddenly feels as if we were no longer alone in the lacrimatorium, regardless of the fact that our dealing with tears is not observed by any external eye. The issue of the intimacy phenomenon and the touch with oneself is more pervasive, the same as the persistent sensation of external control is, which – despite being assured otherwise – just won’t go away.7 Furthermore, “squeezing” tears from our psyche (in this case, physicality is not all that relevant) no longer seems a unique emotional game with ourselves, but rather a considerably more existential experience, which reflects both upon one’s own subjectivity as well as on the objectivity of the world from which we are ripped for a brief moment by the lacrimatorium.8 It’s not just about the 13 years between both events and the maturation of the participant, the “auto-performer” of this event, 17

but about the difference between the times or contexts, which marks both event “performances” and seems so very obvious, although it can only be enigmatically indicated at this point. The second difference is the new contextualisation of the former “cabinet”, the installation of The Wailing Wall, a sculpture composed of ice blocks, a nine-ton “copy” of the famous Jerusalem “original”, which – just a few steps away from the first part of event (performed at the Miran Jarc Library in Novo Mesto) – melts away due to sun rays and high temperatures.9 Although at first sight the wall feels like a selfsufficient sculpture, somewhat a projection area in one segment, it does communicate with the “spectator” because it gives them a chance to pause in front of a living, cold, white ice mass – again – confronted with themself, place a piece of paper with a wish written on it between melting ice blocks and leave it (and everything related to it) – instead of to their own (sub)conscious mechanisms – to this associative artistic object, which now weeps “instead” of the spectator and suffers instead of us.10 If it sounds pathetic, the feeling is wrong; the wailing wall is herein in particular defined by physical or climatic laws whilst the possibilities and associations offered are exclusively the reaction of a spectator or participant to the act of aesthetic participation.11 And at this point, we might perceive a similar “dramatic” emphasis related to 18

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the aforementioned shift to a new “weight” of the entire event, which can be formulated as a series of essential questions, such as: Where do we find ourselves when manifestations such as this have taken away the aura of the merely-aesthetic? What is our place within the (bio) political that opens up following the intervention? And what else – other than pushing into a wall crack our clumsily formulated wish – can we do in order to, at least, preserve the sensation of participating in the world that opens up in the space behind “the wall” or “in front” of it?12 – Indeed, simple and yet picturesque and efficient. Translated by Melita Silič.

Notes: For comparison purposes, see here our contribution on The Cabinet of Memories from 1998: “The Cabinet of Memories is a theatre (“tear-donation”) event within a multidimensional project entitled Camillo, named after a Renaissance genius who is – in the opinion of the author Emil Hrvatin – the anticipator of the Internet. The action was performed in the Slovenian Theatre Museum, produced by B-51 Cultural Society and within the Exodos Festival. In art, it is possible to donate tears, too; indeed, nobody really needs them or – to put it in a different way – this “need” is manifested merely in the field of the aesthetic. Tear donation reflects the (re)theoretisation and instrumentalisation of an act which cannot be separated from theatrical perception, in particular in the adoption of theatre with an emphasised emotional connotation (melodrama); although it is also possible to cry for no particular reason. Undoubtedly, this “no particular reason” also has a rational ground and explanation. Hrvatin addressed “reasons” for crying in three sections: the individual, collective and physiological. Thus, he offers in three separate rooms the spectators (tear donors) a chance for crying or lachrymation upon facing their own individual experience or a recollection of it, upon watching or re-living a series of traumatic collective images, or with a help of physiological stimulation of the lacrimal glands and ducts, in which case the memory actually doesn’t make any difference. The response to the action is left up to the individual – this is a “performance” of the intimate theatre with the spectator being simultaneously the protagonist (in somewhat futuristic ambiences, they only communicate with hostesses or a touch-screen computer) and the spectator (if we ignore the invisible eye observing them in the cabinet of the physiological memory…), while the bare functionalism of the donation act is – when it comes to tear donation – surpassed by an aesthetical or theatrical form or the act of performativity. Such a confrontation with oneself or their “mass” doesn’t have a ritual, religious or even “metaphysical” charge as similar nonartistic intimate acts do (deep sadness, mourning of the dead, confession, in-depth therapy, erotic act, etc.). Although tears fall, this can be attributed to the s(t)imulation and instrumentalisation of the individual’s psycho-physiological accessory. In the chamber of memory (as well as while waiting to donate), the “lacrima-donor” is struck by a notion that crying is – to a large extent – a rational matter and that it might be laughter that cannot be s(t)imulated nor captured in any spectacles fitted with a small reservoir at the bottom… The Cabinet of Memories is definitely an original and ingenious theatre manifestation (some sort of auto-performance), participant-friendly and instructive for its authors.” 2 Association to a “laboratory”. 3 The tear archive is simultaneously an aesthetic archive, a collection of human secretions as the most sublime extract of human emotions, as well as a trans-artistic, anthropological archive, a collection of DNA profiles contained in enzymes and proteins. We can only guess the reasons for archiving; the contract, or certificate, by which we released our tears to the producer doesn’t say anything about them. As the spectators, we might have been caught in an (apparently) aesthetic trap, although the event’s subtitle clearly informs us of its different nature: a “tear donation event”, which is inevitably associated with a “blood donation event”, where blood is donated for humanitarian (read: medicinal) purposes. The aesthetic nature of the event is defined by the very purpose of the donation: the formation of a tear archive, whereby other purposes which the tears – also an archive in itself (genetic code) – might serve remain unknown. Actually, our participation is based on trust, regardless of the fact that we sign a “certificate” or contract for it. To be perfectly honest – our participation in blood donation is also based on trust, due to the lack of any solid confirmation that our blood will be used properly. 4 Of course, the relation between crying and tears is arbitrary: one can also cry without tears, and tears may be attributed to a physiological reaction, which is not related to crying as a psychological category. Also of interest is the syntagma “shed bloody tears”, where tears are replaced by blood. 5 A more precise comparison between the former and today’s collection of collective (arche)types offered by the space of 1

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collective memory would indicate the (emotional) crying – and subsequently tears – feature as a historical category. We cry in a different way in various historical periods, the performative value of cry(ing) is subject to changes; didascaliae or instruction “crying” in the context of drama theatre requires a precise analysis. A particular “history of crying” is also provided by the binary sequence created by Janez Janša with his reconstruction: from a former internal “cabinet of memory” alluding to our individual or collective subconscious, we now move to the external “wailing wall”, which exposes the political dimension of the performative installation. 6 We don’t address the renaming from purely economic reasons. Nevertheless, it is a lot more relevant than it might seem at first sight: the “private” Emil Hrvatin of 1998 has become (more precisely, in 2007) a “public” Janez Janša, and has replaced his “intimate” name with a “serial” one; he has transformed from a “cabinet” artist into a “wall constructor” with a political impact. The difference is highly productive. 7 We are assured that we will be alone in the lacrimatoriums by the hostesses who receive and guide us through the event. We didn’t examine the lacrimatoriums ourselves due to the fact that – once again – we trust artists. The phenomenon of trust in art is a romantic category contrasted by contemporary performative practices and replaced by the formation of a contractual relation resultant from negotiations between the author and the recipient. In addition, it has been a long time since the spaces of art were safe; on the contrary, the current situation may be quite the opposite. 8 Instead of “ripped”, we might also say “roughly put in place”. Indeed, in the lacrimatoriums, we are faced with our own physiology, with an automatic body whose functioning might be influenced to a certain extent but not even close to our firm belief of absolute control over our own body and life. The awareness of the physiological body generating right in front of us its excretions – which we like to claim as being absolutely “ours” – therefore places us in a “democratic” community of everything that is alive as a “not prominent”, equal, “unconscious” part. Disappointment is inevitable, but productive. 9 The act of ice melting is inscribed in its very nature. The construction of a wall from ice blocks differs from the construction of a wall from stone blocks. Indeed, the stone wall is intended to last while the ice one to vanish; the stone wall reaches for height and into the air, whereas the ice wall melts downwards, to the ground. Of course, the climatic and weather conditions also have to be considered; ice melts more slowly or not at all in regions with lower temperatures, it is solid and – so to speak – “eternal” like the stone one. Similar – although to a lesser extent – holds true for the stone wall: this, too, is subject to erosion and washing away, and the rock – again dependent on its location – decays in time. But there is a difference in the phenomenological notion: the stone wall is a symbol of stability and duration, while the ice wall symbolises uncertainty and passing away. The ice wall has originally inscribed within it the notion of its end and disappearance, while a stone wall implicates an eternal beginning or at least a reliable testimony of it. Nevertheless, the ice wall enjoys a particular advantage over the stone one: although still being dependant on climatic conditions, the ice wall has a much better chance of avoiding political influences – it can “escape” political reactions by melting and disappearing into the ground without a trace. Stone walls (in one form or another) are significantly more subject to political than climatic influences. And as an aesthetic-political ephemeris, the ice wall is always – both in terms of aesthetics as well as “ethics” – purer than the stone one. Indeed, as a specific screen reflecting the actual political reality, it is satisfied with a small but intense quantity of a reflected world, whereas the stone wall is bound to centuries of collisions with the world, which it does hold on to but, at the same time, (possibly) loses its original identity. On the other hand, the ice wall is a lot more transparent – also literally – than the stone one, which is always palimpsest in itself. 10 The connection between ice or water and tears seems arbitrary although it evokes poetic associations; the liquid that has been frozen and processed into ice blocks might be (our) tears… But this is not the point; the connection is deeper: if we identify it in the relation between crying or tears and (our) wish, then the vanishing wall – which though at a certain moment actually doesn’t exist anymore is yet declared as being a wailing wall and as such is indubitably connected with our wish – confronts us

with its most profound nature. Contrary to the stone (Jerusalem) wall, which is the wall of praying and faith, the ice wall is the wall of relinquishment and doubt. This is the situation that seems, for the time we live in, more productive than the “original” one. 11 Another fact which remains hidden to a one-time “visitor” of the wall (I myself only realised it after watching the photographs of the wall in the various stages of its “degradation”): under the influence of temperature, the wall is constantly changing, it is actually different in any given moment and as such is an eminent performative object that constantly “acts” in front of the spectator (or more precisely, in front of ever new spectators); it performs its persistent performance of passing away, transforming into its elementary matter, water, which returns to from whence it came – the ground. Indeed, The Wailing Wall is a paradox: it is a performance of duration, but this duration is final – when the last cubic millimetre of wall melts, all that is left is its trace (“tear” as a trace), a mere record in the archive of memories of its witnesses. A transitive state of the matter of water becomes a performative matter and thereby joins other “materials” that already have their legitimate place in contemporary performing practices. 12 The offer to formulate a wish is actually a performative trick: a spectator following the performance from the beginning to its end would, at the moment of the ice’s complete melting, find in front of themself only an insignificant pile of paper, or test tubes, with the written wishes of everybody who has participated in the event; a pile or a mound (the lacrimatorium now evokes “crematorium”) of impossible wishes that will find their place in some sort of an “archive” but will be literally ripped from both the religious as well as aesthetic contexts; a mere satisfaction of the wish of the event’s author, a somewhat performative “God”… – We fell for our own wish and the wall can’t do anything but wails over us!

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K A B I N E T S P O M I N O V, 1 9 9 8 THE CABINET OF MEMORIES, 1998

Barbara Orel

KABINET SOLZ

Umetnost spomina, konfiguracija percepcije in digitalne tehnologije

Ta razprava preučuje povezave med umetnostjo spomina, digitalnimi tehnologijami in konfiguracijo percepcije v sodobnih scenskih umetnostih. Zamišljena je kot študija instalacije Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories – A Donating Tears Session (prvič je bila predstavljena v Slovenskem gledališkem muzeju leta 1998), v kateri slovenski režiser Janez Janša (prej imenovan Emil Hrvatin)1 inteligentno in duhovito preiskuje konstitucijo spomina v sodobni informacijski družbi. Emil Hrvatin je leta 2007 spremenil svoje rojstno ime in se preimenoval v Janeza Janšo. Ime takratnega predsednika slovenske vlade sta si nadela tudi Davide Grassi in Žiga Kariž. Umetniki so spremenili svoja imena na vseh dokumentih (kot so osebne izkaznice, potni listi, zdravstvene izkaznice). Njihova gesta preimenovanja je obravnavana v monografiji Name Readymade (2008). 1

Solzodajalska akcija Privoščimo si najprej virtualni obisk Janševe instalacije za enega gledalca Kabinet spominov. Gledalci smo povabljeni v tri sobe, v kabinet individualnega, kolektivnega in fiziološkega spomina, da bi tam obudili svoje spomine, uspešnost kreativnega dejanja percepcije pa dokazali s solzami. Naprošeni smo, da podarimo svoje solze in jih potočimo v posebej za to priložnost izdelane epruvete v obliki očal. Vstopimo najprej v sobo individualnega spomina. To je kabinet, ravno prav velik prostor za enega gledalca, v katerem so stene obarvane v nebeško modro, na eni od njih pa visi zrcalo. Posameznik se znajde pred svojo zrcalno podobo, ki naj bi stimulirala njegov/njen intimni spomin in mu/ji orosila oči. Za produkcijo solz individualnega emotivnega spomina smo nagrajeni z zlatim certifikatom. Če nam ne uspe potočiti solz pred zrcalom, nadaljujemo pot v kabinet kolektivnega spomina, kjer je name-ščen ekran. Tu so na ogled odlomki iz različnih dokumentarnih posnetkov in filmov, ki pripadajo našemu kolektivnemu spominu. Izbiramo lahko med naslednjimi podobami: na smrt izstradani otroci v Sudanu, eksodus iz Srebrenice (v vojni v Bosni in Hercegovini, 1993–1996), eksodus iz Vukovarja (v vojni na Hrvaškem, 1992–1994), Titova smrt, smrt princese Diane, nesreča letala Inex-Adrie na Korziki leta 1981, v kateri so življenje izgubili vsi potniki in člani posadke, proglasitev slovenske samostojnosti leta 1991, filmi Društvo mrtvih pesnikov, Dolina miru, Kdo tam poje itn. Ponudba podob veselja in žalosti je odvisna od tega, v katerem okolju je postavljena instalacija, saj ima vsaka (nacionalna) skupnost sebi lasten kolektivni spomin. V kabinetu kolektivnega spomina obiskovalec sam izbira podobe, tako da preklaplja z enega kanala na drugega, tako kot gledalec pred ekranom televizijskega sprejemnika ali interneta. »Kolektivni spomin je nekakšna oblika masturbacije s protezo,« pravi Marina Gržinić v razpravi »Kabinet spominov« (v tej 27

knjigi, str. 54). Zato so solze kolektivnega spomina vredne manj od solz individualnega spomina, zbranih brez pomoči proteze, gledalci pa smo zanje nagrajeni s srebrnim certifikatom. Najmanj so vredne solze fiziološkega spomina, ki jih izzovejo rezine čebule v zadnji sobi – kabinetu fiziološkega spomina. Tu prejmemo le potrdilo, ki dokazuje, da smo se udeležili dogodka. Fiziološka občutenja se nahajajo na dnu lestvice emotivnih transakcij, najvišje pa so uvrščena avtentična čustva individualnega spomina, ki jih človek občuti takrat, ko je soočen sam s sabo, ko je najbližje samemu sebi in nihče oziroma nič ne posreduje med jazom in njegovim spominom. Janez Janša preiskuje, v kolikšni meri so naši osebni spomini prežeti s shemami kolektivnega spomina, ustvarjenega v medijih, in to ne glede na realno ali fikcijsko poreklo gradiv. Avtor načne vprašanje o avtentičnosti čustev, o strukturiranosti in učinkih emotivnih transakcij v hiperafektirani informacijski družbi, v kateri se s čustvi razpolaga kot s cenenim blagom (najbolj očiten primer so resničnostni šovi). Medtem ko reflektira temeljne premike v naši sodobnosti, gledalce na igriv način sooča z zapletenimi filozofskimi vprašanji. Ali kot pravi Luk van den Dries v razpravi »Solzavke in miselne igre«: umetnik »uporablja zapeljive in virusne lastnosti zabavnih formatov ter jih postavlja v nov, nenavaden in intimen kontekst, v katerem občinstvo mika, da bi se prepustili tem vse preveč znanim konceptom, obenem pa ga bega nova vsebina. Tako Hrvatin [Janez Janša] otipava okvir naših kodov zaznavanja; doseže, da se zavedamo vseh učinkov, s katerimi so napolnjeni, a ne zato, da bi jih ‚osvobodil‘, niti zato, da bi jim nasprotoval, marveč zato, da bi se z njimi igral in jih komentiral.« (2006, 321) Gledalce umešča na križišče konceptualnih in medijskih diskurzov, da bi se zavedli strukturiranosti naših kodov zaznavanja. Janšev Kabinet spominov je utemeljen v konceptu Gledališča spomina 28

renesančnega polihistorja Giulia Camilla, enega najbolj znanih in spoštovanih mož 16. stoletja. O njegovem skrivnostnem Gledališču spomina, elitističnem projektu za enega gledalca, se je govorilo po vsej Italiji in Franciji. Širile so se govorice, da lahko kdorkoli, ki vstopi vanj, razpravlja o katerikoli stvari nič manj tekoče kot Cicero. Camillovo Gledališče spomina – lesena zgradba, dovolj velika za enega človeka – je bilo zasnovano kot amfiteater, v katerem je bil odnos med gledalcem in gledanim preobrnjen. Gledalec je stal na odru pred amfiteatralno konstrukcijo, sestavljeno iz sedmih stebrov in sedmih vrst, zasnovanih kot gigantski katalog vednosti. Devetinštirideset predalov je bilo poslikanih s sistematično urejenimi podobami – ikonami, ki naj bi evocirale vse znanje in modrost sveta. Kajti »vse stvari, ki si jih lahko predstavlja človeški um in jih ne moremo videti s prostim očesom, je mogoče zbrati s pozorno meditacijo in izraziti z materialnimi znaki, tako da lahko opazovalec s svojimi očmi v hipu zazna vse tisto, kar je sicer skrito v globinah človeškega uma«. (Erasmus cit. po Yates 1996, 137) Skrivnost magične, celo okultne bližnjice do spomina naj bi bila razkrita le eni osebi na svetu: francoskemu kralju. Vendar dokazi, ki bi potrjevali, da je bilo Camillovo Gledališče spomina kdajkoli zgrajeno, sploh ne obstajajo. Samotni gledalec je gledal v sedemkrat sedem slik, ki naj bi s svojo predstavno vrednostjo priklicevale podobe iz njegovega spomina – ne le iz lastnega individualnega spomina, temveč iz zakladnice spomina kot svetovnega uma človeštva. V tem pogledu je Camillov gledalec deloval kot Baudrillardov človek: kot terminal v sklopu informacijskih omrežij, kot spletno mesto individualnih in globalnih, zasebnih in javnih, fikcijskih in realnih strategij.

Terminalni spektAkter Janša je koncept Camillovega skrivnostnega gledališča spomina povezal z učinki digitalnih tehnologij oziroma s statusom posameznika v skopičnem režimu interneta. To je človek pred računalniškim zaslonom, preopremljen z različnimi telekomunikacijskimi protezami, s katerimi se na daljavo povezuje z zunanjim svetom in obenem nadzoruje svoje domače okolje, ne da bi se mu bilo treba fizično premikati. Takšnega posameznika, slehernega med nami pravzaprav, Paul Virilio v študiji Hitrost osvoboditve (La vitesse de libération, 1995) imenuje terminalni občan. Janša je v njem utemeljil nov koncept gledalca: to je t. i. terminalni spektAkter, se pravi gledalec (spektator) in igralec (akter) v eni osebi. Konceptualno ga je opredelil v razpravi »Terminal SpectActor and Other Strategies« (2001). Angleška oznaka terminal spectActor prav tako združuje izraza gledalec (spectator) in igralec (actor). Vprašanje, s katerim se je Janša v tistem času intenzivno ukvarjal, je bilo: ›Če bi hoteli narediti predstavo, bi jo lahko tudi brez občinstva. Ključno vprašanje gledališča je prej obratno: ali bi lahko vzpostavili občinstvo brez predstave?‹ Izstop iz te dihotomije predstavlja t. i. terminalni spektAkter. Gre za novo vrsto gledalca, ki ni več pasivni opazovalec – voajer, ki v temni dvorani tiho opazuje predstavljano. To tudi ni dejavni udeleženec dogodka, povabljen na prizorišče dogajanja kot gostujoči akter. Terminalni spektAkter ima vlogo povezave v mreži celotne performativne dejavnosti. »Postane terminal, kajti on sam je povezava v širšem uveljavljenem programu pulzov, terminal, ki prejema in pošilja signale vseh vrst. Tako se ustvari neskončna množica možnosti; skrajno razpršeno polje energetskih točk, med katerimi obstajajo neštete povezave. Gledalec sočasno aktivno in pasivno sodeluje v tem prometu,« kot vključenost gledalca v performativno mrežo pojasni Luk van den Dries (2006, 324). 30

Janšev terminalni spektAkter tako kot Camillov obiskovalec Gledališča spomina učinkuje kot posrednik, vmesnik v spletnem omrežju. Med njima pa obstaja ključna razlika. Camillov gledalec je vmesnik v pomenu medija, in sicer v misterioznem, celo okultnem pomenu te besede. Pogled na ikone, naslikane na predalih, mu omogoča dostop do zakladnice vednosti, ki je bila v renesansi še lahko pojmovana kot skladišče absolutne vednosti, obstoječe v nekem nedefiniranem prostoru, izoliranem in ločenem od človeka. Takšno pojmovanje vednosti ima osnovo v Platonovi filozofiji, ki je oddelila bit od bivajočega. To pomeni, da je svet idej – in z njim vednost – vzpostavljen kot red absolutnega, ki ni v nikakršni odvisnosti od zunanjih vplivov, zato je ločen od sveta bivajočega, se pravi od čutno zaznavnih vidnih pojavnosti. Vsaj od Derri-daja, ki je dekonstruiral v platonizmu zakoreninjeno zahodno metafiziko in vzpostavil platformo za mišljenje bivajočega onkraj dihotomije med bitjo in ne-bitjo, pa vednosti ni več mogoče umestiti zunaj človeka. Zavest, da je prostor vednosti človekovo telo, se je izostrila v času množične uporabe digitalnih tehnologij, še posebej interneta. Janšev terminalni spektAkter prinaša novo koncepcijo gledalca, ki ustreza doživljanju sveta v dobi digitalne tehnologije. Terminalni spektAkter je namreč integralni del spletnega omrežja; vzpostavljen je kot točka, kjer se poti križajo tako kot v hipertekstu na svetovnem spletu. Nahaja se v položaju vmesnosti: lahko le pasivno opazuje svet, sočasno pa ga lahko tudi dejavno sooblikuje, vanj investira svoje lastne poglede, spoznanja, dejstva. Na delu je umetnost spomina: ne mnemotehnika, veščina pomnjenja oziroma tehnika zapominjanja, temveč umetnost ustvarjanja posameznikom lastnih modelov mišljenja in doživljanja, t. i. mogočih svetov, ki obstajajo kot modalne sestavine dejanskega sveta in se lahko v njem tudi dejansko uresničijo. Umetnost spomina ni usmerjena v rekapitulacijo preteklih dogodkov in njihovo razvrstitev 31

v spominski album, temveč v dejavno konstituiranje sveta, v katerem živimo. Povedano skupaj z Marino Gržinić: »Spomin ni institucija, pač pa je proces konstituiranja« (v tej knjigi, str. 57). V skopičnem režimu interneta pa se je proces vzpostavljanja spomina in identitete radikalno spremenil. Konfiguracija percepcije Živimo v svetu, ki ni več v našem dosegu. Dostop do sveta nam omogočajo telekomunikacijske proteze, kot so telefon, radio, televizija, internet, ki vzpostavljajo komunikacijo na daljavo in nam omogočajo, da smo prisotni v oddaljenih krajih. Topos človekovega bivanja se je radikalno spremenil. Če smo nekdaj prebivali v t. i. topičnem mestu, urejenem okrog vrat in pristana, kot pravi Paul Virilio, zdaj živimo v t. i. teletopičnem metamestu, organiziranem okrog ekrana: »Hočeš nočeš za vsakogar od nas danes velja podvojitev med reprezentacijo Sveta in njegovo realnostjo. Podvojitev med aktivnostjo in interaktivnostjo, prisotnostjo in teleprisotnostjo, eksistenco in teleeksistenco.« (Virilio 1996, 54) Z razvojem in množično uporabo telekomunikacijskih tehnologij se je nekdaj homogeno polje zaznave razkrojilo. Nove razmere zaznavanja so povzročile rojstvo nove vrste subjekta, razpršenega v nerazmejenem ozemlju zunanjega in notranjega, fiktivnega in realnega, organskega in neorganskega, naravnega in umetnega, prisotnega in teleprisotnega. V Kabinetu spominov se razpre vprašanje konstituiranja prav takšnega postmodernega subjekta in njegovega spomina. To je zgodovinsko nova vrsta subjekta, nastalega v novih razmerah zaznavanja v skopičnem režimu interneta. Tu posamezniki ne prebivajo 32

več v istem prostoru in istem času, vendar to ni ovira za medsebojno izmenjevanje sporočil in vzpostavljanje skupne situacije v t. i. elektronski skupnosti. V nasprotju s komunikacijo v živo imamo pri računalniški komunikaciji opraviti z novo konfiguracijo procesa samooblikovanja. Ustroj subjekta je mogoče prikazati s primeri telekonferenc in elektronskih forumov, tako kot to ponazori Mark Poster v The Mode of Information. »Sogovorniki so v položaju piscev fikcije, ki v procesu pisanja opisujejo sami sebe kot like in si jih izmišljajo na osnovi svojih čustev, svojih potreb, svojih zamisli, svojih želja, svojega družbenega položaja, svojih političnih prepričanj, svojih ekonomskih razmer, svoje družinske situacije – svoje celotne človeškosti.« (Poster 1990, 117) Uporabnik elektronskih forumov običajno prikazuje svojo identiteto kot fiktivno in jo izkazuje s psevdonimom; tako se vsaj pričakuje. Pri tem pa je njegova izmišljena identiteta lahko celo bolj avtentična od identitete, ki jo izkazuje sicer. Ali ni posameznikova identiteta tudi v drugih jezikovnih situacijah, ne le v komunikaciji na daljavo, konstruirana in potemtakem vsaj do določene mere tudi izmišljena? V čem je tedaj razlika? Pišoči subjekt v elektronsko posredovani komunikaciji ne strukturira vrzeli med egom in željo, kot ugotavlja Poster, proces oblikovanja jaza pa poteka zunaj konteksta, ki ga zagotavlja družbena formacija. Njegova identiteta izhaja in je scela vzdrževana v redu imaginarnega. V skopičnem režimu interneta se samo-predstavlja kot Drugi. To je tisto, kar je novo: subjekt reprezentira in tudi zaznava samega sebe kot imaginarnega Drugega. Nove razmere zaznavanja so prinesle oziroma okrepile zavest, da je posameznikov jaz sestavljen iz imaginarnih identitet, in to ne le v elektronsko posredovanih, temveč tudi drugih komunikacijskih zvezah, celo v neposredni komunikaciji v živo. Prav to izkušnjo ponuja obisk Janševega Kabineta spominov. Človekova podoba v zrcalu, v življenju povsem vsakdanji in običajni pojav, dobi v kabinetu individualnega spomina status reprezentacije. 33

Janša obiskovalca dobesedno uprizori samemu sebi. To, kar obiskovalec vidi v zrcalu, je jaz kot nekdo drug. V kabinetu kolektivnega spomina pa se mu pridruži spoznanje, da je njegov spomin v odločilni meri kontaminiran z ideologijo. V dobi digitalnih tehnologij je spomin izgubil stabilnost, trdnost in postal krhka, fluidna, spremenljiva entiteta, prostorsko in časovno razpršena, vseskozi izpostavljena politikam predstavljanja in zaznavanja. Zato upravičeno govorimo o umetnosti spomina kot o procesu nenehnega oblikovanja individualnih in kolektivnih spominskih podob, o ustvarjanju t. i. mogočih svetov, ki so edina realnost, v kateri živimo. Kabinet spominov predstavlja prelomno točko v preiskovanju razmerja med igralci in gledalci v slovenskem gledališču. Preiskovanje dinamike med udeleženci gledališkega dogodka je še posebej intenzivno potekalo v osemdesetih in devetdesetih letih 20. stoletja. Umetniki, kot so Dragan Živadinov, Marko Peljhan, Igor Štromajer, Matjaž Berger, Vlado Repnik in drugi, so vez med nastopajočimi in gledalci problematizirali kot mejo: ne le kot pregrajo med predstavljanim in občinstvom, temveč kot mejo medija gledališča v odnosu do drugih medijev na eni strani in gledaliških konvencij na drugi strani. »Teatraliziran« odnos do občinstva je bil izraz vzpostavljanja novih konceptov gledališča v dialogu z vizualnimi in intermedijskimi umetnostmi, performansom in plesom. Ta proces je bil vseskozi zaznamovan s polemično zaostrenim zavračanjem tradicionalnega modela gledališča in – zgledujoč se po zgodovinski avantgardi – odvračanjem od mainstreama. Problematiziranje optičnega in ideološkega režima t. i. italijanske škatle je bilo povezano s preoblikovanjem slovenskega gledališča v širše polje scenskih umetnosti. Če je v zadnjih dveh desetletjih 20. stoletja redefiniranje normativnega komunikacijskega modela potekalo predvsem zaradi vzpostavljanja novih konceptov reprezentacije, danes 34

to poteka s prav nasprotnega vidika, z vidika konfiguracije percepcije: preiskovanja nevidnih mehanizmov zaznavanja, ontologije vidnega in politike percepcije. Ta preobrat je mogoče zaslediti prav na prelomu tisočletja, točko obrata pa opredeliti z instalacijo za enega gledalca Camillo memo 4.0: Kabinet spominov – Solzodajalska akcija (1998), v kateri Janez Janša premesti lokus gledališča v gledalčevo telo. Privilegirani prostor vednosti tedaj ni več oder, temveč gledalec kot celota emocionalnih, intelektualnih, fizičnih in intuitivnih sposobnosti. Vizualna podoba je le dražilo za gledalca, da bi si v procesu gledanja kot ustvarjalnega dejanja ustvaril sebi lastno predstavo in občutil samega sebe kot vir koordinat percepcije.

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* Različica te razprave je bila pod naslovom »Cabinet of Tears: The Art of memory, perception and digital technology« objavljena v: Theatre and Memory. Ur. Jelena Luzina. Skopje: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, 2007, str. 53–62.

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ZID OBJOKOVANJA, 2011 T H E WA I L I N G WA L L, 2011

Barbara Orel

CABINET OF TEARS

The Art of Memory, Configuration of Perception and Digital Technologies

This paper explores the connection between the art of memory, digital technologies and the configuration of perception in contemporary performing arts. It is considered as a case study of the installation Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories – A Donating Tears Session (originally presented in the Slovenian Theatre Museum in 1998) in which Slovenian theatre director Janez Janša (formerly Emil Hrvatin)1 intelligently and wittily examines the constitution of memory in contemporary information society.

Emil Hrvatin legally changed his name to Janez Janša (the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia at the time) in 2007, together with two other artists. They changed all their personal identity documents, such as passports and medical cards, to bear their new names. Their name-change gesture is discussed in Name Readymade (2008). 1

A Donating Tears Session Let us first indulge ourselves in a virtual visit of Janša’s installation for a solitary spectator – The Cabinet of Memories. Visitors are invited into three rooms – cabinets of individual, collective and physiological memory – which are designed to evoke our memories. The creative act of perception is proved successful by crying. We are asked to donate our tears and shed them into test tubes in the form of eyeglasses, designed especially for this occasion. First, we enter the room of individual memory. It is a cabinet, a space just big enough for a single spectator, with walls dressed in celestial blue and a mirror hanging on one of the walls. We are confronted with our mirror image, which is to stimulate our intimate memories and wet our eyes. By producing tears of an individual memory we are awarded with a golden certificate. If we can’t shed any tears in front of the mirror, we continue on into the cabinet of collective memory, which has a screen in it showing excerpts of documentary recordings and films that belong to our collective memory. We can choose between the following images: children starving to death in Sudan, the exodus from Srebrenica (from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993–1996), the exodus from Vukovar (from the war in Croatia, 1992–1994), Tito’s death, the death of Lady Diana, the airplane crash on Corsica Island of a Slovenian carrier full of Slovenian tourists, the declaration of Slovenian independence in 1991, the films Dead Poets’ Society, Peace Valley, Who Sings Over There and so on. The selection of images depends on the country in which the installation is being presented since each (national) community has its own collective memory. A visitor selects images by switching from one channel to another, like somebody watching television or using the Internet. “Collective memories are a form of masturbation with a prosthesis,” argues Marina Gržinić in her essay “The Cabinet 39

of Memories” (see this book, page 61). Therefore, tears of collective memory are worth less than tears of individual memory, collected without the help of a prosthesis; participants are awarded with a silver certificate for these. Of least value are tears of physiological memory, which are induced with almost certainty by onion-cutting in the last room – the cabinet of physiological memory – which we then leave bearing a simple certificate confirming we have participated in the event. Physiological sensations are ranked at the bottom of the scale of emotive transactions, while the highest position is taken by the authentic emotions of individual memory that are stirred when one is faced with oneself, when one is closest to oneself and nobody or nothing mediates between one’s self and one’s memory. Janez Janša examines to what extent our personal memories are permeated with schemes of collective memory created by media, regardless of their factual or fictional origin. He addresses the question of the authenticity of feelings, of structure and the effects of emotive transactions in a hyper-affected information society in which feelings are perceived as cheap goods (the most striking examples are reality shows). By reflecting the fundamental shifts in our contemporaneity, he confronts spectators with complex philosophical questions, or as Luk van den Dries argues in his essay “Tear-jerkers and Mindgames”: the artist “uses the seductive and viral qualities of these entertainment formats and by placing them in a new, unusual and intimate context, in which the audience is both inclined to go along with these familiar concepts and confused by their new content. In this manner, Hrvatin [Janez Janša] manipulates the framework of our perceptional codes making the audience conscious of their own agency not in order to ‘liberate’ them, nor to oppose them, but so that he can both play with and comment upon them.” (2003, 13) He places the spectators at a 40

crossroads of conceptual and media discourses to make us aware of the structure of our codes of perception. Janša’s The Cabinet of Memories is based on the concept of Memory Theatre of the Renaissance polyhistor Giulio Camillo, one of the most famous and respected men of the 16th century. His mysterious Memory Theatre, an elitist project for one spectator, was talked about all over Italy and France. Rumour was spread that upon entering the theatre the spectator would be able to discourse on any subject no less fluently than Cicero. Camillo’s Memory Theatre – a wooden structure, big enough for one person – was designed as an amphitheatre in which the relationship between the spectator and the watched was reversed. The spectator stood on stage in front of the amphitheatral construction of seven pillars and seven rows, designed as a gigantic catalogue of human knowledge. Forty-nine drawers were painted with systematically arranged images – icons which were to evoke all knowledge and wisdom of the world. Namely, “all things that the human mind can conceive and which we cannot see with the corporeal eye, after being collected together by diligent meditation, may be expressed by certain corporeal signs in such a way that the beholder may at once perceive with his eyes everything that is otherwise hidden in the depths of the human mind.” (Erasmus quoted in Yates, 1996, 137) The mystery of this magical, or even occult, shortcut to memory is supposed to have been revealed to only one person in the world: the King of France. On the other hand, there is no proof that Camillo’s Memory Theatre was ever built. A solitary spectator watched seven times seven icons, the presentational value of which was supposed to have recalled images from his/her memory – not only from his/her own individual memory, but also from the treasury of memory as a world mind of humanity. In this sense, Camillo’s spectator functioned 41

as Baudrillard’s man: as a terminal within an informational system of networks, as a melting pot of individual and global, private and public strategies. Terminal spectActor Janša linked the concept of Camillo’s mysterious Memory Theatre with the effects of digital technology and the status of an individual in the scopic regime of the Internet. This is a person in front of a computer screen, overequipped with various telecommunicational prostheses that enable him/her to communicate with the outer world and at the same time control his/her domestic environment without having to physically move. Virilio (in his book Open Sky – La vitesse de libération, 1995) designates such an individual, each of us actually, a terminal citizen. Following this concept, Janša established a new type of a spectator, the so-called terminal spectActor – a spectator and an actor in one person, and defined it in the essay “Terminal SpectActor and Other Strategies” (2001). The question he intensively worked on at the time was: “If we wanted to create a performance, we could do so also without an audience. However, the crucial question of the theatre is rather the opposite: can we set up an audience also without a performance?” He tried to go beyond this dichotomy with the concept of the so-called terminal spectActor. This is a new type of a spectator who is no longer a passive observer – a voyeur who sits in the dark and observes what is represented on stage. Neither is (s)he an active participant in the event, invited into the world of fiction as a guest actor. The terminal spectActor functions as a link within the network of performative activity: (s)he becomes a terminal, as (s)he “is in fact the link in a broadly established programme of pulses – a terminal that 42

receives and sends all sorts of signals. In this way, an endless array of possibilities is created; a diffuse field of energy points between which there are countless connections. The spectator takes part in this traffic in both an active and passive manner.” This is how Luk van den Dries explains the integration of a spectator into a performative network (2003, 21). Like Camillo’s visitor of the Memory Theatre, Janša’s terminal spectActor functions as an intermediary, a link in the World Wide Web. However, there is an essential difference between them. Camillo’s spectator is an intermediary in the sense of a medium in the mysterious or rather occult meaning of the word. A look at the icons on the drawers allows him or her access to the treasury of knowledge, which in the Renaissance could still have been considered as the store of absolute knowledge exsisting in some undefined space, isolated and separated from human beings. Such understanding of knowledge derives from Plato’s philosophy, which separated ideas from their appearances. This means that the world of ideas – as well as knowledge – is established as an order of the absolute that is completely independent of external influences and is therefore separated from the world of visible phenomena. Since Derrida, who deconstructed Western metaphysics rooted in Platonism and established a platform for a mode of thinking that goes beyond traditional dichotomies, knowledge can no longer be located outside a human being. The awareness that the space of knowledge is the human body has increased with the mass application of digital technologies, particularly the Internet. Janša’s terminal spectActor introduces a new concept of spectator that corresponds to the mode of perception in the era of digital technology. Terminal spectActor is an integral part of the World Wide Web; (s)he is 43

a crossing point, like icons in the hypertext of the World Wide Web. (S) he exists as an in-between: (s)he can passively observe the world and at the same time actively co-create it. The art of memory is at work: not the skill of mnemotechnics, of remembering, recollecting things to one’s mind, but the art of the creation of images and entities that constitute the world. The art of memory is not directed into a recapitulation of past events, but into an active constitution of the world we live in. For “memory is not an institution but a process of constitution”, as Marina Gržinić argues (see this book, page 65). In the scopic regime of the Internet, the process of the creation of memory and identity has radically changed. Configuration of Perception We live in a world which is no longer within our reach. The access to the world is made possible by telecommunicational prostheses, such as the telephone, radio, television, the Internet, which facilitate long-distance communication and enable one to be present in remote spaces. The topos of human existence has radically changed. If once we resided in the so-called topical city, constructed around the gate and the port, as Paul Virilio maintains, now we have all come to reside in the socalled teletopical metacity, structured around the teleport, that is, the screen: “Whether we like it or not, for each and every one of us there is now a split in the representation of the World and so in its reality. A split between activity and interactivity, presence and tele-presence, existence and tele-existence.” (Virilio, 1998, 44) With the development and mass consumption of telecommunicational technologies, the once-homogeneous realm of perception has been disintegrated. New circumstances of perception have given birth to a new type of subject, 44

dispersed in the undelimited territory of the external and the internal, the fictional and the real, the organic and the non-organic, the natural and the artificial, the present and the tele-present. The Cabinet of Memories poses the question of the constitution of exactly just such a postmodern subject and his or her memory. This is historically a new type of subject, formed in new circumstances of perception, in the scopic regime of the Internet. Individuals here no longer reside in the same space and time, but that is no obstacle for communication exchange and the formation of group situations in the so-called electronic community. As opposed to face-to-face interaction, electronically mediated communication leads to a new configuration of the process of self-constitution. The shaping of the subject can clearly be illustrated with the example of computer conferencing and electronic forums, as Mark Poster does in The Mode of Information. “Conversationalists are in the position of fiction writers who compose themselves as characters in the process of writing, inventing themselves from their feelings, their needs, their ideas, their desires, their social position, their political views, their economic circumstances, their family situation – their entire humanity.” (Poster, 1990, 117) Users of electronic forums usually reveal their identities as fictitious and demonstrate them with nicknames; at least, that is expected. This invented identity of a conversing individual is thus even more authentic than the identity demonstrated otherwise. Is an individual’s identity not also constructed in other linguistic situations, and not only for the purposes of distant communication, and as such also invented to a certain degree? So where is the difference? As stated by Poster, a writing subject in electronically mediated communication does not form a gap between the ego and desire, and the process of configuration of the self unfolds without the usual wrapping of context 45

that is otherwise assured by social formation. His or her identity derives from and is entirely maintained in the order of the imaginary. In the scopic regime of the Internet, (s)he is self-presented as the Other. And that is what is new: a subject represents and also perceives himself or herself as an imaginary Other. These new circumstances of perception have raised the awareness that an individual’s self is constructed of imaginary identities, not only in electronically mediated communication, but also in face-to-face interaction. And that is the experience that a visit to Janša’s The Cabinet of Memories offers. While looking into the mirror in the cabinet of individual memory, one experiences oneself as somebody else: the visitor’s mirror image is given the status of representation. Janša literally stages a spectator to oneself. In the cabinet of collective memory, he makes him/her realize that even the most intimate feelings are contaminated with ideology. In the era of digital technology, memory has lost stability, solidity, and has become a fragile, fluid, variable entity, spatially and temporally dispersed, continuously exposed to the politics of representation and perception. For this reason, the continuous process of creation of our (individual, collective or physiological) memory can justifiably be defined as the art of memory. The Cabinet of Memories represents a turning point in the exploration of the relation between actors and spectators in Slovenian theatre. The exploration of dynamics among participants of a theatrical event was particularly intensive in the 1980s and 1990s. Artists, as for example Dragan Živadinov, Marko Peljhan, Igor Štromajer, Matjaž Berger, Vlado Repnik and others, problematised the connection between actors and spectators as a borderline: not only as a barrier between what is presented on stage and the audience, but also as a borderline of theatre in relation to other media on the one hand, and theatre 46

conventions on the other hand. The “theatralised” relationship with the audience was the result of the formation of new concepts of theatre in dialogue with visual and intermedia arts. This process was throughout marked by a polemically sharpened refusal of the traditional model of theatre and – modelled on the historical avant-garde – with the turning away from the mainstream. The problematising of the optical and ideological regime of the so-called Italian box was connected to the restructuring of Slovenian theatre into a wider territory of performing arts. As opposed to the last two decades of the 20th century, when the redefining of the normative communication model took place mainly due to the formation of new concepts of representation, today it is taking place from the opposite point of view: the view of configuration of perception – an exploration of invisible mechanisms of perception, the ontology of the visible and the politics of perception. This change can be noticed at the very turn of the century and is clearly demonstrated in the installation for the solitary spectator – Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories – A Donating Tears Session (1998) – in which Janez Janša shifts the locus of theatre into a spectator’s body. The privileged centre of knowledge is no longer the stage, but the spectator as an embodiment of emotional, intellectual, physical and intuitive abilities. The visual image is merely a stimulant for the spectators to create their own performance in the creative act of viewing and thus perceive themselves as a source of the coordinates of perception. Translated by Saša Požek.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Baudrillard, Jean: Selected Writings. Ed. Mark Poster. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. Dries, Luk van den: “Tear-jerkers and Mindgames. About Emil Hrvatin’s Theatre Work.” In: Memory, Privacy, Spectatorship. Ed. Maja Žerovnik. Ljubljana: Maska, 2003, pp. 9–27. Gržinić, Marina: “Memory Cabinets”. In: Memory, Privacy, Spectatorship. Ed. Maja Žerovnik. Ljubljana: Maska, 2003, pp. 31–40. See also in this book, pp. 59–65. Hrvatin, Emil: “Terminal SpectActor and Other Strategies”. In: Luk van den Dries and Henk Oosterling (eds.): InterAkta 4: Performance, Transformance, Informance. New Concepts in Theatre. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 2001, pp. 19–22. Janša, Janez, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (eds.): Name Readymade. Ljubljana: Moderna galerija; Berlin, Revolver, 2008. Poster, Mark: The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Virilio, Paul: Open Sky. London, New York: Verso, 1998. [La vitesse de libération, 1995.] Yates, Francis A.: The Art of Memory. London: Routledge, 1996.

*The first version of this paper was published in: Theatre and Memory. Ed. Jelena Luzina. Skopje: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, 2007, pp. 53–62.

KABINET INDIVIDUALNEGA SPOMINA THE CABINET OF INDIVIDUAL MEMORY

L A K R I M ATO R I J I N D I V I D UA L N E G A S P O M I N A T H E L AC R I M ATO RY O F I N D I V I D UA L M E M O RY

KABINET KOLEKTIVNEGA SPOMINA THE CABINET OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

L AC R I M ATO R I J KO L E K T I V N E G A S P O M I N A T H E L AC R I M ATO RY O F CO L L E C T I V E M E M O RY

KABINET FIZIOLOŠKEGA SPOMINA THE CABINET OF PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY

L A K R I M ATO R I J F I Z I O LO Š K E G A S P O M I N A T H E L AC R I M ATO RY O F P H Y S I O LO G I C A L M E M O RY

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www.ljudmila.org/camillo

Marina Gržinić

KABINET SPOMINOV

Spomin je zadeva časa in njegove kontinuitete, postaviti je treba preteklost, sedanjost in prihodnost v sinhronijo z našim telesom. A zdi se, da smo z internetom in vsesplošno računalniško kulturo preteklost izgubili, prihodnost pa je medtem izginila nekje v kiberprostoru. V obsesivni (tele)prisotnosti, ki se kaže kot zadeva trenutka in ki jo živimo danes, ko še samo dostopamo do spleta in smo ujeti v poplavi zvočnih/ slikovnih tokov, nismo več v sinhroniji z »zadevami« spomina, ki tako čaka, da se ga bomo vnovič polastili ali ga znova izumili ob primernem času. Camillo memo 4.0: Kabinet spominov – solzodajalska akcija je hibridna performativna akcija, instalacija v stilu vivant tableau ali preprosto gledališka igra za enega samega obiskovalca, uporabnika, udeleženca naenkrat. Nastala je leta 1999/2000 v režiji in produkciji ljubljanskega gledališkega režiserja Emila Hrvatina1, ki se je želel vnovič polastiti ideje 1

V času, ko je nastal pričujoči tekst, se je avtor Kabineta spominov imenoval Emil Hrvatin.

o spominu v času fluidne sodobnosti. Delo Kabinet spominov črpa navdih pri italijanskem renesančnem mojstru umetnosti spomina Giuliu Camillu (1480–1544). Hrvatinov projekt Kabinet spominov na izjemno premeten način preizprašuje pomen spomina. Obiskovalec/udeleženec/iskalec spomina potuje skozi tri prostore/bokse/kabinete: skozi kabinet individualnega in kolektivnega spomina, če mu v teh dveh spodleti, pa je vabljen, da vstopi v kabinet fiziološkega spomina. Na steni nasproti vhoda v kabinet individualnega spomina, ki je nebesno moder satenast prostor/boks/kabinet (velikosti 1 x 1,2 x 2 m), visi ogledalo. Vrata se takoj po vstopu vanj zaprejo; udeleženec v njem ostane sam in toliko časa, kolikor želi. Ker so spomini, zbrani v tem kabinetu, najdragocenejši, se mu, ko jih zbere, podeli zlati certifikat. Tu se nam upravičeno zastavlja vprašanje, kako vemo, da je bil udeleženec zares uspešen pri obujanju spominov? Hrvatin je izdelal napravo, posebne epruvetke v obliki piramidastih očal, kamor se iztekajo obiskovalčeve solze; če je donacija solz uspešna, udeleženec prejme (zlati) certifikat. Hrvatin je torej dohtar (in ne zdravnik) Mabuse Fritza Langa; to zahodnjaško populistično slengovsko preimenovanje zdravnika v dohtarja pomeni natanko to, da je Kabinet spominov mehkejša oblika introspekcije v čustva naključnih udeležencev. Dejanje ponovnega izuma spomina je povezano z jokom, s telesnimi tekočinami, saj udeleženec dokaže uspešno obujanje spominov z jokom! V kabinetu individualnega spomina je donacija solz, ki se zbirajo v epruvetkah, nagrajena z zlatim certifikatom. Nagrada je dokaz učinkovitega obujanja spominov znotraj tega nebeško modrega boksa, a brez vsakršnih protez ali dodatne pomoči. Postopek pomnjenja olajša le ogledalo, ki je tam nemara zato, da omogoči globlji pogled vase in v sam imaginarij. Udeleženec v kabinetu individualnega spomina prevzema položaj 53

igralca. Gre za monološko igro brez občinstva; prisoten je le odsev njegovega lastnega pogleda v ogledalu. Uporabnik je vase zaprt sistem, ki sili svoje telo, da proizvaja tekočine in tako vzpostavlja povezavo s spomini. Je vsebnik, ki upa, da bo z globoko introspekcijo vase proizvedel solze. Toda ali se spomini zares lahko sprožijo sami od sebe? Če v kabinetu individualnega spomina nismo učinkoviti – če solze sploh ne pritečejo – lahko zaprosimo za vstop v kabinet kolektivnega spomina. Kolektivni spomin se po besedah Hrvatina razlikuje po situacijah in skupnostih, sproža pa ga vselej nek zunanji dejavnik. Potrebuje usmeritve, ikone, embleme, znake v času in prostoru. V kabinetu kolektivnega spomina se ta sproža s televizijo in filmskimi slikami. In kdo se bolje zaveda razlike med individualnim in kolektivnim spominom, če ne prav vzhodni Evropejci s svojo zgodovino naduprizarjanja kolektivnega duha: socialistične parade, velike kolektivne komemoracije, prisiljena (ali morda tudi ne) čustva ob smrti katerega od diktatorjev. V prostoru kolektivnega spomina film in televizija vzbujata različna čustva: sentimentalnost, tragičnost, razvnetost, radost in žalost. Z dotikom televizijskega ekrana lahko obiskovalec v njem izbira med naslednjimi ikonami, emblemi, narativi kolektivnih spominov: • NOGOMETNA TEKMA MED HRVAŠKO IN NEMČIJO Z IZIDOM 3-0 za Hrvaško • OD LAKOTE UMIRAJOČI SUDANSKI OTROCI • MNOŽIČNO IZSELJEVANJE IZ VUKOVARJA zaradi vojne na Hrvaškem (1992–1994) • MNOŽIČNO IZSELJEVANJE IZ SREBRENICE zaradi vojne v Bosni in Hercegovini (1993–1996) • TITOVA SMRT leta 1980 • SMRT PRINCESE DIANE • LETALSKA NESREČA NA KORZIKI, v kateri je strmoglavilo 54

slovensko letalo, polno slovenskih potnikov • JUGOSLOVANSKA ZMAGA NA SVETOVNEM PRVENSTVU V KOŠARKI • RAZGLASITEV SLOVENSKE NEODVISNOSTI leta 1991 • DRUŠTVO MRTVIH PESNIKOV, film • IMITACIJA ŽIVLJENJA, film • DOLINA MIRU, film • KDO NEKI TAM PREPEVA, film. In še bi lahko naštevali. Kolektivni spomin je nekakšna oblika masturbacije s protezo. Po vstopu v kabinet kolektivnega spomina se vrata zaprejo in udeleženec poskuša pridobiti srebrno nagrado. Če mu oba poskusa spodletita, je vabljen, da vstopi v vice: v kabinet fiziološkega spomina. Tukaj Hrvatinu uspe prisiliti obiskovalca, da potoči solze, kajti očitno smo najbolj v sinhroniji s svojimi spomini, če nam pod nos pomolijo drobno naribano čebulino rezino. Spominjanje kot fiziološko dejanje v kabinetu fiziološkega spomina je prav tako nagrajeno, toda le s potrditvijo udeležbe, z dokumentom brez vsakršne vrednosti. Tri kabinete lahko razumemo kot tri faze pomnjenja: vice so kabinet fiziološkega spomina, pekel pa ni kabinet kolektivnega spomina kljub močno poudarjenim kolektivnim podobam v njem; zares pravi pekel je kabinet individualnega spomina. In ker se v samoti težko soočamo s svojimi spomini, je naribana čebulina rezina hkrati blagoslov in zaušnica, ki nam pomaga uzreti bolečo (ali nemara prijetno, kdo ve?) realnost in lažje premagati grozote naših najbolj intimnih spominov. Camillo memo 4.0: Kabinet spominov – solzodajalska akcija vzpostavlja inovativne povezave med konstruirano napravo, performativnimi praksami, prostorom (ki je zgrajen kot kabinet ali zaporna celica) in elektronskimi mediji. Povezan je s tehnologijo in tehnikami konstrukcije 55

prostora, optičnih in sferičnih orodij (namesto električnega nas v kabinetu fiziološkega spomina čaka sferični stol) in pojmi, ki se dotikajo javnega in zasebnega ter prostora in časa. Gre za posebno interakcijo med izkušnjo realnega časa v zaprtem prostoru in med podobami, čeravno so zrcalne in uprizorjene (znova in znova s preprostim dotikom monitorja v kabinetu kolektivnega spomina). S to interakcijo Hrvatin ponuja različne poglede na naše dojemanje družbene akcije in vzpostavljanje odnosa s samimi seboj. V kabinetu fiziološkega spomina udeleženec ni uporabnik, je igralec. Ni le oddaljeni element ali povezovalni člen, pač pa je notranji aktant, sprožilec spominov, ki samega sebe spodbuja k delovanju. Je kot nekakšen robot, umetni stroj, ki jasno pokaže, kako so naši spomini skonstruirani, zmanipulirani, izumetničeni. Sedeti na sferičnem stolu v tem kabinetu pomeni zavzeti položaj igralca in postati najbolj notranji element te performativne instalacije, ki javnosti omogoča neposreden prehod iz zasebne v javno sfero. Kar v tem performansu šteje, je življenje, sposobnost soočanja z najbolj notranjimi spomini in, obratno, s tehnološkim/posredovanim svetom, ki je neločljiv del življenja. Življenje si lahko tukaj razlagamo kot čisto interakcijo: da bi proizvedli solze, smo prisiljeni v interakcijo s samimi seboj, tudi ko smo popolnoma izločeni iz javne sfere. Življenje in spomine lahko opredelimo kot jasen interaktivni mehanizem, kot proces razširjanja, razporejanja, kroženja. Ogledalo v kabinetu individualnega spomina vrača pogled, travmatske spomine in skrite obsesije in omogoča njihovo kroženje. V kabinetu kolektivnega spomina je udeleženec odrezan od zunanjega sveta, ki ga nadomeščajo videomonitorji, medtem ko je okolje tretjega kabineta (fiziološkega spomina) ponotranjeno. V prvih dveh kabinetih uporabnik/gledalec/udeleženec opazuje proces spominjanja in mehanizme transparentnega delovanja in prikrivanja, ki spadajo v območje (območja) zasebnega in javnega. Ob razmišljanju o 56

teh mehanizmih pa se zastavlja vprašanje: ali se lahko prebijemo skozi plasti spominov in duševnih pretresov, ki tvorijo posameznikovo življenje in telo? Prostor Hrvatinovega performansa ni avtonomen: prej potrjuje razkropljenost, uničenje in propad svojega lastnega avtonomnega položaja znotraj javnega prostora. Prostor performansa je – kakor posameznikovo življenje – pogojen s političnimi, družbenimi in kulturnimi vzorci in lokacijami. Vsak kabinet je tako matrica zase. Kabinet (kabineta) individualnega in kolektivnega spomina nudi izkušnjo trenutnega brezizhodnega položaja v času. V prvem lahko to brezizhodnost razumemo kot nekakšen časovni podaljšek: čas je dojet kot globoko popotovanje v lastno telo, kot zrcaljenje sebe, poglabljanje vase. V drugem je čas proces krčenja. Vse spomine je treba strniti, preveriti, očistiti kot video podobo, projekcijo situacije, projekcijo drobnega odseka že posredovane zgodovine. V fiziološkem prostoru pa je čas povsem dinamična akcija, je kot strganje. Pri vseh treh je vse prej kot vprašanje prostora ključno vprašanje časa: spomin je proces širjenja različnih časovnih con, je preplet med realnim prostorom in pretokom informacij. In če širjenje časa razumemo kot fluidni prostor, lahko tukaj mirno govorimo o fluidnem spominu, saj gre v kabinetu kolektivnega spomina prav za njegovo artikulacijo. To je prostor, ki ni prostor; njegovo mesto je prevzela elektronska podoba, ki usmerja udeleženca, da se poistoveti z določenimi trenutki kolektivne zgodovine. V tem kabinetu je elektronsko gradivo (video-film) vmesnik. Spomin je mnogovrsten, razdeljen, odprt. Gre zgolj in samo za prenos od pogleda k spominu, od video posnetka v možgane. Pri spominu gre za kvantiteto sproženih informacij in ne za neke točno določene podatke, serijske emocije in telesa v deliriju. Gre za vprašanje prehodnega pretoka informacij, kjer spomin deluje kot trans-spomin. Kinematične podobe v tem primeru ustvarjajo prostor in vzpostavljajo interakcijo. Kabinet kolektivnega spomina nam pokaže, da 57

bo projekcijski prostor kmalu prevzel mesto javnega prostora. Kakšna je pravzaprav vloga piramidastih očal z epruvetkama? Lahko si jih razlagamo kot majhno specializirano programsko aplikacijo (kot aplet), ki zbira solze udeležencev različnih kabinetov in ki je edini nespremenljivi lokalni element celotne performativne akcije. A kljub svoji lokalni določenosti ne predstavlja nevarnosti trans-fluidnemu sistemu spominov v posameznem kabinetu. Odziv telesa na čebulo je nekaj nadvse eksistencialnega – lokalnega – individualnega. Nihče ne more predvideti količine solz, ki jih bo sprožila čebula. Zadnje Hrvatinovo sporočilo je, da je spomin teritorij brez prostora in da kot tak ni mogoč brez delovanja. Spomin ni institucija, pač pa je proces konstituiranja. In vonj čebule pod nosom je stvarno dejanje, ki v tem performansu represivnih in terapevtsko apliciranih metod predstavlja sistem, ki postavlja pod vprašaj nevtralnost komunikacije. Ne gre za nedolžno izmenjavo ali za delitev, pač pa za reartikulacijo, ponovno zbiranje, izumetničenost emocij, obsesij in akcij. Hrvatin je s poigravanjem s pogoji našega posredovanega sveta razširil in na novo definiral namen performansa novega tisočletja. Prevedla Tanja Passoni.

* Besedilo je bilo pod naslovom »Emil Hrvatin’s Memory Cabinets« prvič objavljeno v: PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, New York, št. 71, maj 2002, str. 108–114.

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www.ljudmila.org/camillo

Marina Gržinić

THE CABINET OF MEMORIES

Memory is a matter of time continuity, of having the past, the present and the future clearly in synch with our bodies. Due to the Internet and computerized culture, it seems we have lost the past, and meanwhile the future has disappeared somewhere in cyberspace. In the instantaneous and obsessive (tele)presence in which we live today, accessing the Web and receiving audio/video streams, we are no longer in synch with the “stuff” of memory, and therefore memory is waiting to be re-appropriated or reinvented, when the time comes. Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories – A Donating Tears Session is a hybrid performance action, a vivant tableau installation or simply a theater play for one visitor, user, participant at a time. It was directed and produced in 60

1999/2000 by Emil Hrvatin,1 a theatre director from Ljubljana, in order to reappropriate the idea of memory in itself in the time of fluid contemporaneity. The Cabinet of Memories originated from the ideas of the Italian Renaissance master of the art of memory, Giulio Camillo (1480–1544). Hrvatin’s project The Cabinet of Memories is an extremely intelligent way of questioning the value of memory. In The Cabinet of Memories, the visitor/participant/memory retriever has the possibility of entering three rooms/boxes/ cabinets: of Individual Memory, of Collective Memory and, if nothing works out, the participant is asked to enter the Cabinet of Physiological Memory. Inside the Cabinet of Individual Memory, a celestial blue satin-covered room/ box/cabinet (1m x 1.2m x 2m big), there is only a mirror on the wall opposite to the box’s entrance door. The door of the box closes soon after one of the participants expresses a wish to participate, and s/he finds himself/herself left alone. In the cabinet, s/he can spend as much time alone as s/he desires. The memories recollected here are the most valuable, and the participant is awarded with a golden certificate. But you will rightly ask yourself “how are we sure that s/he was successful in recollecting memories?” Hrvatin has constructed a device, special test tubes in the form of pyramidal eyeglasses with which tears are collected from the visitor’s eyes; if the donation of the tears is successful, the participant gets a (golden) certificate. Hrvatin is Fritz Lang’s Doc (and not doctor) Mabuse; here, the populist Western slang of renaming “doctor” into “doc” denotes precisely that the Cabinet of Memories is a softer version of the introspection of emotions by random participants. The act of the re-invention of memory is connected with crying, with fluids from the body, as the participant has to prove his or her successful achievement of memories by crying! In the Cabinet of Individual Memory, donating tears that are collected in the test-tube eyeglasses is awarded with the golden certificate. The award is proof of the efficiency of capturing memories without a prosthesis, no extra help is given in the celestial blue 1

At the time this text was written, the author of the Cabinet of Memories had the name Emil Hrvatin.

box. To facilitate the process of memorization, only a mirror is allowed, perhaps to look deep into the eyes and in the imaginary. The position of the participant in the Cabinet of Individual Memory is the position of an actor. It is as a monologue play without a public, only the participant’s gaze looks out of the mirror. The user is a self-enclosed system that forces his or her body to produce fluids and self-reconnects with memories. S/he is a container, with a wishful idea that deep introspection into the self will produce tears. Are memories a matter of auto-induction? But if we cannot function in the Cabinet of Individual Memory – the tears are not spurting out at all – then another possibility is to ask to enter the Cabinet of Collective Memory. The memories in the Collective Memory cabinet differ, as Hrvatin has said, from situation to situation, from community to community, and have to be induced always from the outside. Collective memories need paths, icons, emblems, signs in time and space. In the Cabinet of Collective Memory, such memories are induced with the help of television and film images. And who knows better about this distinction between individual and collective memories than the Eastern Europeans, with their history of over-staging the collective spirit: the socialist parades, the big collective commemorations, the forced (or maybe not) emotions when some of the dictators died. In the space of collective memory, film and TV evoke different feelings: sentimental, tragic, exulted, joyous, and sad. By touching the television screen in this cabinet, the visitor can choose from among these various icons, emblems and narratives of collective memories: • CROATIA VS. GERMANY FOOTBALL MATCH THAT RESULTED IN 3-0 for Croatia • CHILDREN STARVING TO DEATH IN SUDAN • EXODUS FROM VUKOVAR, during the war in Croatia (1992–1994) • EXODUS FROM SREBRENICA, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993–1996) • TITO’S DEATH in 1980 62

• DEATH OF LADY DIANA • AIRPLANE CRASH ON CORSICA ISLAND of the Slovenian carrier full of Slovenian tourists • YUGOSLAVIA WORLD BASKETBALL CHAMPION • DECLARATION OF SLOVENIAN INDEPENDENCE in 1991 • DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY, film • IMITATION OF LIFE, film • PEACE VALLEY, film • WHO SINGS OVER THERE, film And so on. Collective memories are a form of masturbation with a prosthesis. The participant enters the Cabinet of Collective Memory, the door closes and s/he tries to win the silver certificate award. If both attempts have failed, then the participant is asked to enter the Purgatory Cabinet: the Cabinet of Physiological Memory. Here, Hrvatin has a secure way to purge the teardrops from the visitor: a gentle scrubbing of an onion slice under the nose is the best way to be in synch with our memories. Memories, as a physiological act in the Cabinet of Physiological Memory, are awarded as well, but with a confirmation of participation only – a paper with no value at all. The three cabinets can be perceived as three stages of memorization: the purgatory is the Cabinet of Physiological Memory, but hell is not the Cabinet of Collective Memory, no matter how emphatic the collective images are; the real inferno is the Cabinet of Individual Memory. It is difficult to cope with our memories in solitude. The onion slice is as much a blessing as it is a slap in the face that allows us to awaken in the reality of pain (or maybe pleasure, who knows?) and that will help us to overcome much more easily the horror of our most deeply secret memories. Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of Memories – A Donating Tears Session creates innovative links between a constructed engine, performance practices, 63

space (constructed as a cabinet or a prison cell) and electronic media. The project has a great deal to do with technology and techniques of constructing space, optical and spherical tools (instead of an electric chair, a spherical chair is waiting for us in the Cabinet of Physiological Memory) and concepts that deal with the public, the private, space and time. It is a special interaction between a real-time experience in a closed-circuit space and the images â&#x20AC;&#x201C; self-mirrored and re-played (again and again with a simple touch of the monitor screen in the Cabinet of Collective Memory). In such an interaction, Hrvatin offers differing views on the way we perceive social actions and establish a relationship with ourselves. In the Cabinet of Physiological Memory, the participant transforms from user to actor. S/he is not a mere distant element or joint structure, but an internal actant, an agent of memories that is induced to function. S/he is a kind of a robot, an artificial engine that shows clearly how our memories are constructed, manipulated, made artificial. To take a place in the spherically constructed chair in the Cabinet of Physiological Memory means to take the position of an actor and to be the most internal element of this performance / installation piece. This is a direct passage for the public from the private into the public sphere. It is life that matters in this performance piece, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life capability to deal with oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most internal memories and, conversely, to confront the technological/mediated world that is the intrinsic part of this life. Life is seen here purely interactively: we have to interact with ourselves as well, when we are absolutely isolated from any public sphere, in order to produce tears. Life and memories are seen as a precise interactive mechanism. It is also a process of emanating, distributing, circulating. The mirror in the Cabinet of Individual Memory is returning, re-circulating the gaze, the traumatic memories and hidden obsessions. In the Collective Memory cabinet, the participant is cut off from the outside world, but this world is replaced by video monitors. The environment in the third cabinet (Physiological 64

Memory) is an environment of internalization. In the first two cabinets, the user/the viewer/the participant contemplates the memory process, but also the mechanisms of transparency and obfuscation that are part of the zone(s) of the private and public. Involvement in these mechanisms of transparency elicits the question: Can one work through the layers of memories and traumas that shackle individual lives and bodies? There is nothing autonomous about Hrvatinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance space: it acknowledges dispersion, destruction, and the end of its autonomous position within the public space. The performance space, like the singular life, is constricted by political, social and cultural patterns, locations. Each cabinet is a specific matrix. The cabinet(s) of individual and collective memories produce the experience of a temporary deadlock in time. In the Cabinet of Individual Memory, this deadlock is seen as an extension of time. Time is perceived as a deep journey into oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own body, the mirroring of the self, an immersion. In the Cabinet of Collective Memory, time is a process of condensation. All memories have to be condensed, verified, purged as a video image, a projection of a situation, a projection of a tiny slice of an already mediated history. In the physiological space, time is a pure dynamic action, a scrubbing. In all three cabinets, a question of space is replaced by time: memory as a process of augmentation of different time zones, a mixture of a real space and a flow of information. With the augmentation of time perceived as a fluid space, we can speak here about a fluid memory. This is what is precisely articulated in the Cabinet of Collective Memory. The space is instead a non-space; it is the electronic image that drives the participant to empathize with, or reconnects them with, certain moments in the collective history. In the Cabinet of Collective Memory, the electronic (video/film) material is the interface. Memory is multiple, divided, open. It is all about a transmission from the gaze to the memory, from the video frame to the brain. Memory is about the quantity of induced information and not about fixed data, serial emotions and delirious 65

bodies. It is a question of a transitory flow of information where the memory functions as trans-memory. Here, the cinematic images are therefore producing a space and an interactivity. The Cabinet of Collective Memory shows that the public space will be soon exchanged for a projection space. And what is the function of the test-tube-pyramidal eyeglasses? It could be seen as a specialized small program application (as an applet), which collects tears from the different cabinets’ participants and which is the only local fixed element in the whole performance action. It is locally fixed, but it does not represent any danger to the trans-fluid memory system of the Cabinets. The reaction of the body to an onion is something very existential – local – individual. Nobody can predict the quantity of tears that the scrubbing of the onion will produce. The last lesson we get from Hrvatin is that memory is a territory without a space and that it is not possible to achieve memory without activity. Memory is not an institution but a process of constitution. And the scrubbing of the onion under the nose is an act of reality. In this performance of repressive and therapeutically-applied methods, it represents the system that puts into question the neutrality of communication. It is not about pure exchange or about sharing, but about re-articulation, re-collection, the artificiality of emotions, obsessions and actions. Hrvatin extends and redefines the scope of performance in the new millennium by playing with the conditions of our mediated world.

*The first version of this paper was published under the title “Emil Hrvatin’s Memory Cabinets” in: PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, New York, no. 71, May 2002, pp. 108–114.

O AV TOR JIH / ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Blaž Lukan je dramaturg, pisec in gledališki kritik. Je docent za dramaturgijo in predstojnik Oddelka za dramaturgijo na Akademiji za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo v Ljubljani, član uredniškega odbora revije Amfiteater in predsednik Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije. Bil je umetniški vodja Gledališča Glej in Slovenskega ljudskega gledališča Celje. Objavil je nekaj knjig, med njimi Dramaturške figure: eseji o današnjem gledališču, Gledališki pojmovnik in pregled slovenske dramaturgije (z uvodno študijo) Slovenska dramaturgija: dramaturgija kot gledališka praksa. Blaž Lukan is a dramaturg, writer and theatre critic. He is an assistant professor of dramaturgy and the head of dramaturgy at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, a member of the editorial board of the magazine Amfiteater, and president of the Slovene Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers. He has served as the artistic director of both the Glej Theatre and the Slovene National Theatre Celje. He has published several books, including Dramaturgical Figures: Essays on Today’s Theatre, Theatre Idioms (Gledališki pojmovnik), as well as an overview of Slovene dramaturgy (with a theoretical introduction), Slovene Dramaturgy: Dramaturgy as Theatre Practice.

Barbara Orel je docentka na Akademiji za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo Univerze v Ljubljani, kjer predava študije scenskih umetnosti. Je avtorica knjige Igra v igri (2003) in urednica monografij Silvan Omerzu in gledališče Konj (2005) ter Scenske umetnosti in politike predstavljanja (2008). Je tudi selektorica nacionalnih gledaliških festivalov Teden slovenske drame (2006 in 2007) in Borštnikovo srečanje (2008 in 2009). Barbara Orel is an assistant professor of performing arts at the University of Ljubljana, Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. Her works include the book Igra v igri (Play Within a Play, 2003) and the edited monograph Scenske umetnosti in politike predstavljanja (Performing Arts and the Politics of Representation, 2008). She was also a curator of the Slovenian national theatre festivals: the Week of Slovenian Drama (2006 and 2007) and the Borštnik Theatre Festival (2008 and 2009).

Marina Gržinić je profesorica na Akademiji za likovno umetnost na Dunaju, na Inštitutu za likovno umetnost, program postkonceptualne umetniške prakse, in raziskovalka na Filozofskem inštitutu na ZRC SAZU v Ljubljani. Dela tudi kot neodvisna teoretičarka medijev, kritičarka umetnosti, video umetnica in kuratorka. Med drugim je objavila knjigi: Re-Politicizing art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology, ur., Akademija za likovno umetnost, Dunaj in Schlebrügge, Dunaj, 2008; Une fiction reconstruite Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme et rétro-avant-garde, L'Harmattan, Pariz, 2005 idr. Marina Gržinić is profesor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art Practices. She is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She also works as freelance media theorist, art critic, video artist and curator. Selected monographies and volumes by Marina Gržinić are Re-Politicizing art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology, ed., Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and Schlebrügge, Vienna 2008; Une fiction reconstruite Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme et rétroavant-garde [Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern Europe, Postsocialism and Retro-avantgarde], L'Harmattan, Paris, 2005; etc.

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5€

Blaž Lukan

Za razliko od kamnitega (jeruzalemskega) zidu, ki je zid molitve in vere, je ledeni zid ravno nasprotno, zid odpovedi in dvoma.

Contrary to the stone (Jerusalem) wall, which is the wall of praying and faith, the ice wall is the wall of relinquishment and doubt. Privilegirani prostor vednosti ni več oder, temveč gledalec kot celota emocionalnih, intelektualnih, fizičnih in intuitivnih sposobnosti. The privileged centre of knowledge is no longer the stage, but the spectator as an embodiment of emotional, intellectual, physical and intuitive abilities.

Kar v tem performansu šteje, je življenje, sposobnost soočanja z najbolj notranjimi spomini in, obratno, s tehnološkim/posredovanim svetom, ki je neločljiv del življenja.

Barbara Orel

Marina Gržinić

It is life that matters in this performance, one’s life capability to deal with one’s most internal memories and, conversely, to confront the technological/mediated world that is the intrinsic part of this life.