Transnomia is the condition marked by
value instability, which arises during a transition between different,
often contradicting systems of beliefs. The old values are destabilized
and questioned, the new values are not yet firmly in place.
Our attempt is to take this distance in-between, full of uncertainty
and unpredictability, and scrutinise all the possibilities it has for
the production of meaning, happiness, and magic. For it is in the moments
of crisis that we become more sensitive to magic and can rejoice in the arbitrariness
of meaning and randomness of life.
Using the movement and language vocabulary derived
from different systems of beliefs, we create the Transnomic condition in a
performative context. The words, references, and gestures are deprived of the
original meaning, but retain the original potential and the fervor from within.
Just like the a child who invents a secret language to find magic in the mundane,
we invent a secret game that takes the audience on a meditative journey through
the gaps, coincidences, overlaps, and contradictions arising in transitionary
states.
The question that we propose is not only how can we laugh and rejoice
within instability, crisis, and constant change, but also – how
can the audience and the performers believe in each other and in the performance
itself?
We, Dimitry Paranyushkin and Diego Agulló, invite you into the
secret world of intersubjective relations and immaculate celebrations.
Being the only child and having no siblings to play with.
The orange is orange. We think and God laughs.
Transnomia was developed at Kunstfabrik (DE) and PAF (Performing Arts
Forum in France), and presented at Sophiensaele (DE), Tanztage Festival,
Studio Salon, TAMTAMTAM/PLAYBerlin, Arsenal Gallery (PL).
