VJ RESEARCH ENTRY #1

QUESTION: How do we (as individuals, as an ensemble) interpret poetry on the page into physical, time-based performance?

QUESTION: What happens when we die?

ANCHOR: Greek chorus / fugue / host of the dead / welcoming committee

STRUCTURE: Hanoch Levin's LIVES OF THE DEAD (translated by Atar Hadari) {FRAMEWORK}

STRUCTURE: Elegy / Decomposition

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KNOWNS (?):

white v. brown --> purity/antiseptic v. dirty/rotting

each chapter a stage of progression AND resignation (acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable)

EPHEMERA. materials of a life. papers/magazines/boxes (HOARDER/proof of existence)

Ritual of DEATH v. "AFTER-DEATH" (v. AFTERLIFE!)

UNKNOWNS:

Is this real?
If "nothing" happens after death, how can he sense the nothingness?

Is this HELL?

Is "the man" one of us, all of us, none of us? (some fluctuation / combination??)

Is whatever happens (or doesn't happen) after death fixed/static? Subject to/determined by variables? (quality of life lived, beliefs, values...)