To dust
En chair et en son
Le Cube, centre de création numérique
Issy-les-Moulineaux
27th October 2018
music Bruno Sporcq, Holodomor (Un requiem Ukrainien)
photos and video Fabrice Pairault
What is fixed as ineliminable is that which is written by means of pain in the language of the body.
– Edith Wyschogrod, Spirit in Ashes
A dance in memory of the horror of the Holodomor, murder by starvation, inflicted on Ukraine by the Soviet Union in 1932–33. A dance in memory of all victims of man-made mass death.
With this work I asked my body to give voice to the unspeakable part: to dust, to bone, to cry. ‘What is fixed as ineliminable,’ Edith Wyschogrod writes, ‘is that which is written by means of pain in the language of the body.’ (Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and man-made mass death. Yale University Press, 1985, 30)
To dust is the dance of the body as eschaton, the last thing, a being thrown to the edge of its existence, dismantled, brutally undone.
