What happens in between?
Between sky & sea
Between light & dark
Between birth & death
Between inside & outside
Between day & night
Between myth & reality
Between now & then...
Bridges span/create the divide between sky and sea/earth -see Heidegger's comments on bridges.
Lemi Ponifasio has referred to his work as the pursuit of the "Va-body", a conscious and
responsible state of being.
The Va = the gap in the rock reef
around an island. It's where the islanders' boats come in and go out for fishing
or travel and it's the most dangerous part of the ocean.
"This is the point
where we should be all the time," he says. "In Samoa we say in the va, that's
what politeness is – it means to be in the space, to be paddling on both sides
of the canoe, to be in balance. Maintain the space, it's like a motto in Samoa.
That's the kind of theatre I'm trying to make, it's about being in the space.
"Our architecture is the same. In a typical Samoan house you have one room and
everything is open. Births, deaths, love-making, eating, drinking, sleeping,
fighting, discussion takes place in one space so you must learn negotiation. I
like this. As opposed to the theatre which is a space of mystery."
Cornelia Parker
(Movement suggested, a moment in between captured)
Rituals, Ceremony, Discarded
..and thinking of in between spaces..."reading between the lines" project by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh
http://www.archdaily.com/298693/reading-between-the-lines-gijs-van-vaerenbergh/
http://www.gijsvanvaerenbergh.com/
http://www.gijsvanvaerenbergh.com/
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