Hello my fellow Steemers,
Today I would like to share an artistic text I wrote in 2014. The occation was the opening of a vernissage in the parliament of Bucharest by an artist who wanted to have a little speech before this happened. Somehow the muse kissed me and I wrote a 20 minutes play divided in 4 chapters.
Since then I have changed some detailes in the text, so you will notice a small difference beetween video and text.
My writers pseudonym at that time was Flora Amalia Roth. Here I have a shot of the costume I wore for the performance.
Quote 1: “Beware of 2084!” -Flora Amalia Roth
Chapter 1
Quote 2: „From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.“ (Karl Marx)
Well, we are taught early on that we can do anything from starting a civilization on Mars to ending world hunger. We, in this context of course, mean society or if you like money. Our need as people has always been the struggle for status. The need to represent something bigger and to ignore technical and human limits. The universe is huge, our galaxy is big, but how small are we? We are the millions and billions of people caught in our time. Desperately searching to fulfil a meaning. That‘s how society or shall we say: How money wins the war over our needs. Human nature is not in need of violence but it is a good distraction from the most terrifying question in life: Why am I –or am I at all?
Quote 3: „I think, therefore I am!“ (René Descartes)
I don’t think –the only reason why I still am. If I thought about all the things that are going on right now at this very moment I’d go crazy. Living human beings, sacrificed at the altar of globalization, children starving for our obsession for luxuries and people absent of any voice; screaming their sorrow to the world. To be honest –I can’t be sure suffering people really exist. I’ve never seen them, I’ve never heard them cry themselves to sleep, neither have I watched them die. In my research I have seen them as numbers on papers, but in my mind they had faces, friends and families. I thought, therefore they are. I write, therefore they will be.
Quote 4: „History will be kind to me for I intend to write it“ (Winston Churchill)
So what’s my part in this mess? Can I be the saviour, am I the damnation, or do I matter at all? Is my voice the one of the past, the present day or the future? Does my voice fit in any time at all? Life is such a fragile thing and history proves that we are way too reckless toying around with it. Sometimes I wonder if the anonymous and official gamblers ever think of life’s worth. About the unique and precious minds of people, that get poisoned and die, because of commercials and propaganda? About the unique and precious places on earth, that get poisoned and die before anyone could ever discover them? About the unique and precious thoughts that become poisoned and die as our modern slaves? And I wonder how they feel about the sense of their own lives. Are they already planning the end during a game of golf or at nice dinner? How long will it take till history becomes useless, for there will be no one to think about it? Is it already too late? Is there a power that can save us from extinction?
Quote 5: „Knowledge is power!“ (Google: “Francis Bacon”)
Thoughts have the power of life, for it is thinking that makes you realize your own existence. Written thoughts have the power to transform a lived life into history. We only know, for sure, what we experience on our own, everything else needs to be transformed by another human mind. Therefore we must doubt all we seem to know, till we find a way to experience it with our own senses. And even then we can’t be sure we gained knowledge because it is not absolute. Knowing things is always subjective, because our human mind has limits. We are not able to grasp the universe in full. Still, by questioning the world we maybe can gain wisdom. And wisdom might be useful in the war that is about to come.
This was our stage in the parliament of Bucharest.
Part II- View this link: https://steemit.com/journey/@yoganarchista/artistic-text-performed-in-the-parliament-of-bucharest-part-ii
Part III -Check out this link: https://steemit.com/anarchism/@yoganarchista/steemit-here-is-part-iii-of-my-artistic-text-less-than-3
Part IV: https://steemit.com/art/@yoganarchista/artistic-spiritual-text-and-performance-video-part-iv
I will post the other parts soon. Also I will attach more background pictures to them so you can imagine better the experience I had. Being 20 years old and performing at that castle. The video of the artist including the whole text I will post with the last part. Hope reading this part was inspiring for you.
Lots of Love <3