‘silent spaces’

If we agree that the real is a structural gap (it needs to be there in order for the triad to exist and it is still a gap), and if we agree that it is ineffable, how could we approach it? Could we approximate it through another gap such as silence? Eckhart Tolle asks his audience to pay attention to “the silent spaces […] in which the words happen”¹³. To him things, words, thoughts belong to the manifested world. There is also the unmanifested. By acknowledging the silent spaces we can be aware of the unmanifested, the ineffable. Although this sounds like a difference-between, space and silence can be viewed as pure differences. Silence is not the opposite of speech. It preexists and that is how we can hear the words. The space in between the words written on paper preexists in order for the marks to be visible. Of course one would say, the spacing when writing a text is mostly predetermined                   and even more so when         typing                                                                               

who                  says                                               

                       that this is the only                                  way

to write   ?

Eckhart Tolle pauses                and   draws attention       to  the s i l e n t s p a c e s          when he addresses his   audience.

                   I think     that  silence         as pure difference    could  be employed in performance   to      a p p ro a c h    the real or a t least   realness   if we agree with   Ridout.

                                                          What        this  practic a l l y    means 

        silence   and   silent spaces   in a performance

                remains to           b e  i n v e s t i g a t e d

If   we   go                                 

back                again                     

                  to the thought   that  we    can’t use        language  to    access   the  ineffab l e   r e a l         

                 I s e e     t h e r e              anotherpossibility      

                                nonlanguage

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                                                          it is yet   another  exploration

                                                                                        Finally

I want to return to the lacanian triad (Symbolic-Imaginary-Real) and consider as Žižek does      the three structural  parts               as  correlating spheres¹⁴ 

 all three parts   need   to be  there   for the structure to exist 

the spheres intersect 

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if  the spheres correlate then the real exists         within  the    imaginary      as well     as  within the symbolic

by presenting the symbolic                 which is re-presenting      

                   by employing the imaginary

                                     one could talk about the correlating real

I started by investigating representation and questioning the disciplined body’s ability to approach the real through the symbolic. An

d    here I am revisiting          representation                                   

                                                                                     it sounds like a different representation  than the one that I have  experienced             

in several  theatre   performances  so far. The correlating spheres and the acknowledgment of the gap seem to have shed   light    on it.

silence

non-language

correlating spheres

it is an exploration in     black  and  white  and

                              for  the b o d y    in  practice