Powerful reading by Den 4. Væg and very relevant thoughts on the potential of art. Thank you so much for that.
“Becoming Bird træder helt over tærsklen med dette ritual, der markerer en nyslået pagt mellem naturen og mennesket. Jeg beundrer folk, der lider for det, de tror på, og det er ikke for lidt sagt, at Becoming Bird rækker helt ned i lidelsens afgrund. Med både audiowalk og den rituelle pagt rammer forestillingen en øm nerve og demonstrerer, at kunsten kan være langt mere end bare et tilflugtssted fra en fucked up verden. Kunsten kan og bør være et decideret konfrontationsfelt, hvor alle overflødige lag bliver skrællet af, så det eneste, som står tilbage, er, hvad det vil sige at være til. Kun ved at stille det spørgsmål kan vi som samfund ændre den måde, vi ønsker, verden er på. Men det kræver, at vi kan se hinsides os selv og forstå, at naturen er den sande evighed og altid vil være her, selv når vi som mennesker er væk.”
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“Becoming Bird steps fully across the threshold with this ritual, which marks a newly forged pact between nature and humankind. I admire people who suffer for what they believe in, and it is no understatement to say that Becoming Bird reaches all the way down into the abyss of suffering. Through both the audiowalk and the ritual pact, the performance strikes a tender nerve and demonstrates that art can be far more than merely a refuge from a fucked-up world. Art can and should be an outright field of confrontation, where all superfluous layers are stripped away, leaving only what it means to exist. Only by posing that question can we, as a society, change the way we want the world to be. But this requires that we are able to see beyond ourselves and understand that nature is the true eternity and will always be here, even when we as humans are gone.”