nervousystem

Presents 

THE MYTH AND THE FLESH 

Created and performed by

Marián Araújo

"A woman weaves a trail that leads her through the many doors of her inescapable memory. As she fleshes out her myth to reveal other selves, she invokes and confronts a sensuous innocent, a woman in the still pain of adulthood and an ancient pilgrim all bound by the touch of an impossible love for one that cannot be counted…"

What is reality?

How do we perceive ourselves?

What does I Am / Myself mean?

What does memory do to us?

All of these questions embody the concept of The Personal Myth created in the space between Us and The Other. If that space is a question of perception, how do personal free associations work for the artist and for the viewer (the doer and the receiver)?

There are an infinite number of associations to a specific action if our perception is opened beyond our own reality, but how can we access them? How can we change our habits of looking, seeing and perception?

In The Myth and The Flesh all of these questions are incarnated in the figure of a woman who interrogates her past through a solitary ritual in which she invokes the remembrance and memories of what was and could have been her life.

Dramaturgy by Marián Araújo from texts by:

Jeffrey Gormley, Paul Celan, The Song of Songs, Apocrypha texts, Julio Cortazar, Kahlil Gibran, Margarite Yourcenar and T.S. Eliot, traditional, Sefardi, Cuban and Spanish songs. 

With the artistic collaboration of Gey Pin Ang during different phases of creation.

First work-in progress montage assisted by Aiden Condron, August 2007. 

Photography: Bohoe.com

Graphic design: Paul Regan

 

THE MYTH AND THE FLESH PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS TO DATE:

October 15th. 2008

University of Kent. Open presentation and talk to students as part of the British Grotowski Project and The European Research network activities. Canterbury, England 

September 25th-27th. 2008

The Back Loft at La Catedral Studios. Public performances. Dublin, Ireland 

August 26th. 2008

Galway Arts Festival. As part of MART (Media Art) festival program. Public performance. Galway, Ireland

June 12th. 2008

Grotowski Center. Private presentation to a group of international theatre practitioners. Wroclaw, Poland

May 30th. 2008

Teatro C-Videocentro. Theatre festival Soli tre donne. Public performance. Terni, Italy 

March 15th. 2008

Sala Ambigú. Public performance. Valladolid, Spain

August 31st. 2007

Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Private presentation of primary work-in-progress montage.