Are you nervous?
just 2 days for departure and i'm allready sweating...we (that's 4 performers from the theatre academy Maastricht) will go into the world of the (for me) unnown, the world of big history and even bigger stories. I'dd better prepare a bit...
Does that mean making a blog to keep me updated?
Your right, I'dd better stop procrastinating and learn something about the jews, israelies, moslims, palestanien the history the future military the politics the landscape the fun the danger the...
Does that mean you don't know shit?
Your right and how could I? Never bin there. The media shows us 2d immages of (in my case) 33x45cm. And mostly the political negative sides. Im going there to hear see and feel some personal stories, i'm going there to give personal intensions and ideas as well.
What kind of questions are you going to ask them?
Well, let us first shake hands and see if we have simple things in common like handshaking.
Since only 7% of all our communication is verbal, i'dd first like to concentrate on our bodylenguage.
You have only 2 weeks you know?
So let me stay concentrated on the lenguage of bodies, and also materials. Bodies and materials seldom lie, like words can. I like to communicate trough those underestimated systems.
Like?
Like balancing stones on top of eachother, stones from Holland and Jeruzalem (see pics).
Like making sequences in duet about first contact (handshaking vs "hi how are you fine and you yeah fine")
What I mean by that is that I think that we trap ourselves in the way we meet in our words..
it's often so boring and so not communicative that I would like to hear that enhanced, at the same time the bodies will show the real underlaying emotions towards eachother, also enhanced offcourse.
So what exactly you want to research?
I ask this because I believe that art should always have a research stadium in order to find something new and personal.
I would like to research fysical behaviour, find detailistic bodylenguage in common or in different with me (coming from a different culture).
So if you excuse me now mr left and right brain - i'm going to pack my backpack.
Want to see more about me and my performance artwork? www.nicksteur.com
see more about the festival: http://www.alqudsunderground.net/
