Feb 18
The box. How to perform an handscroll?
Asian Art, Amsterdam. Photography Gert Jan van Rooij.
In the past the unrolling of an handscroll was an intimate experience shared by friends in a private room. While unrolling the scroll, the story painted on the scroll unfolds. I want to explore and try out different ways of performing my hand scrolls. The setting can be private and intimate, for example to tell the story of my handscroll *Gay Love* to a gay couple. How to tell the story and what questions do we have? Read more about this handscroll in my newsletter 1 [ www.pedrobakker.com
I can do the same to a hetero love couple by telling the tragic story of *Third Sister You*. It's about absolute love, what questions could I pose in the context of my project "New Illusions of Love". My scroll is about old illusions written down in the classical novel *The Dream of the Red Chamber*. How is the love couple thinking about their love, do they have new illusions?
How to visualize this performance setting? How could I dress myself to accentuate the intimacy? How to share this private event on the social media? Could we film the interaction of this intimate setting?
My performance will need engagement and involvement and the handscroll can be the medium to deepen personal items. I think my personal input will be based on Kierkegaards philosophy of love. My performance has to be the opposite of the indifference of a museum guide to his or her public and inversely the indifference of the public to the museum guide.
[1]: www.pedrobakker.com
In the past the unrolling of an handscroll was an intimate experience shared by friends in a private room. While unrolling the scroll, the story painted on the scroll unfolds. I want to explore and try out different ways of performing my hand scrolls. The setting can be private and intimate, for example to tell the story of my handscroll *Gay Love* to a gay couple. How to tell the story and what questions do we have? Read more about this handscroll in my newsletter 1 [ www.pedrobakker.com
I can do the same to a hetero love couple by telling the tragic story of *Third Sister You*. It's about absolute love, what questions could I pose in the context of my project "New Illusions of Love". My scroll is about old illusions written down in the classical novel *The Dream of the Red Chamber*. How is the love couple thinking about their love, do they have new illusions?
How to visualize this performance setting? How could I dress myself to accentuate the intimacy? How to share this private event on the social media? Could we film the interaction of this intimate setting?
My performance will need engagement and involvement and the handscroll can be the medium to deepen personal items. I think my personal input will be based on Kierkegaards philosophy of love. My performance has to be the opposite of the indifference of a museum guide to his or her public and inversely the indifference of the public to the museum guide.
[1]: www.pedrobakker.com