Sorry
Anita Wach • Gregor Zorc • Andrej Fon
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Parasitism as a survival strategy
The performers start from scratch, create actions, search for a mental breakthrough and take the audience through the performative ups and downs of the creative process. Sorry is a collection of physical manifestations and mental articulations on a theme inspired by French philosopher Michel Serres’ book The Parasite and his thesis that parasitism is the only possible natural relationship. Parasite. One who takes food from another’s table, who exploits, uses, abuses. One who eats, gives nothing in return, creates nothing, shares nothing, supports no one, sacrifices for no one. No one wants to be a parasite, this vile and repulsive creature of evolution, this cynical aberration of nature.
What if the relationship is based on one-way, give and take relationship – and nothing else? Is parasitism really the basis and even the condition for any kind of relationship? Serres argues that parasitism is a fundamental fact of the existence of every living being. The parasitic relationship is a form of inseparable and undemocratic coexistence, a relationship of mutual interdependence in which every move becomes a link in an endless chain of intentions and reactions. Parasitism is a survival strategy. The parasite rejects violence. As long as the host remains alive, as long as it can feed on its life, the parasite lives in harmony with it. The ideals of the parasite are immobility, hibernation, total submission. As long as its host can move and breathe – be it a partner, a family, a city, a country, a continent or a planet – the parasite is free.
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn
Photo: Marcandrea
Sorry
2018 • Irresolvable
Performance • 180 min
Concept — Anita Wach
Devised and performed by — Anita Wach, Gregor Zorc, Andrej Fon
Performing strategy — Bojan Jablanovec
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa, Zavod Sploh
Co-production — Body/Mind Foundation, Warsaw
