3:3:3 ~ a residency ~ Switzerland / 2001
A portrait of a nation.
An investigation into identity.
An exploration into "feeling"
3:3:3 ~ An invitation was made by Thierry Spicherr, Artistic Director, of Arsenic Theatre, Lausanne,
Switzerland to answer the question / the proposition.
"Who are we as Swiss?"
I requested that the Swiss keep me alive for 333 hours.
I asked what 'they' wanted - This "we" - The answer was to experience "feeling"
We began.
The process for 3:3:3 was to work with 2 architects in order to construct a neutralised space, a Liminal location that would support life.
Using the national iconic structure of the Nuclear Bunker, a submerged and so invisible / unseen location of the bunkers that are constructed in each
home as protection for the population of the Swiss Sovereign State, a state of neutrality.
The bunker as a structure became a perfect symbolic structure that seemed to best expose something of the hidden psyche of the Swiss.
What is on the surface is not what is beneath.
Drawing on everything from the political and social history, to the cliches of a nation, to the shape and history of the National flag, to the stories heard and experienced, to the writing of Shelly's Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus that was written on the banks of Lac Léman in Switzerland, to the existence of Jung and the development of the conscience & Unconscious states of the human existence, to the suicide rates of a population, to the fragmented unity of the political structures and linguistic medly, to the clean and comfortable, to the chocolate fed, the strippers brought, the silence and noise.
3:3:3 came into being.
Following this process a 3 hour 33 minute performance was developed using the living experience of the process.
These images taken by Stacey Potter expose something of the process and practice of this project.
For another insight into the process and the practice please go to -~ http://vimeo.com/34781710 - a short clip of this unique project.
For a more in-depth engagement with the process and research patterns engaged with for 3:3:3 - Go2 (link)
Switzerland to answer the question / the proposition.
"Who are we as Swiss?"
I requested that the Swiss keep me alive for 333 hours.
I asked what 'they' wanted - This "we" - The answer was to experience "feeling"
We began.
The process for 3:3:3 was to work with 2 architects in order to construct a neutralised space, a Liminal location that would support life.
Using the national iconic structure of the Nuclear Bunker, a submerged and so invisible / unseen location of the bunkers that are constructed in each
home as protection for the population of the Swiss Sovereign State, a state of neutrality.
The bunker as a structure became a perfect symbolic structure that seemed to best expose something of the hidden psyche of the Swiss.
What is on the surface is not what is beneath.
Drawing on everything from the political and social history, to the cliches of a nation, to the shape and history of the National flag, to the stories heard and experienced, to the writing of Shelly's Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus that was written on the banks of Lac Léman in Switzerland, to the existence of Jung and the development of the conscience & Unconscious states of the human existence, to the suicide rates of a population, to the fragmented unity of the political structures and linguistic medly, to the clean and comfortable, to the chocolate fed, the strippers brought, the silence and noise.
3:3:3 came into being.
Following this process a 3 hour 33 minute performance was developed using the living experience of the process.
These images taken by Stacey Potter expose something of the process and practice of this project.
For another insight into the process and the practice please go to -~ http://vimeo.com/34781710 - a short clip of this unique project.
For a more in-depth engagement with the process and research patterns engaged with for 3:3:3 - Go2 (link)