#012 Zoa, TELEFANTE und das mollsche Gesetz

The psycho-geographical universe of poet and painter William Blake (1757–1827) serves as the invisible conceptual framework for Zoa. Blake’s last and most ambitious work, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, narrates an archaic creation myth through a hermetical and alchemistic lens: the Giant Albion — embodiment of humanity as primordial unity — fractures through conflict and fall into the four Zoas, archetypal forces representing the fundamental aspects of the human spirit: Imagination, Reason, Emotion, and Perception. The conceptual parallels between Blake’s mythological system and quantum physics form the metaphysical ground from which this piece emerges.

In collaboration with Juan Orozco, Luis Negrón van Grieken investigates the rediscovery of myth and the aspects of magic inherent in the construction of images from light and shadow. The work is conceived as a living process: its creation unfolds visibly within the space, in real time. Through the law of the pause — das mollsche Gesetz — and the generous occupation of the Johanneskirche’s architectural volume, the performance generates a concert situation of exceptional permeability. Architecture speaks through silence; projections transform the space into the imaginary.

Presented as part of the TELEFANTE series with Wolfgang Mitterer and das mollsche gesetz at Festival Altstadtherbst, Düsseldorf, September 2007.