Performances : passive activism

Performances

Just Having Tea (series)
2016 -
Performances happen in various locations

The Way of Tea (Chado), which developed as an artform in its own right since the 15th century in Japan, is at the same time a path of knowledge and insight, as it is a Gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of artforms.

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I have no doubt that, within ten years, the fundamental Way of Tea will die out.
When it dies out, people in society will believe, on the contrary, that it is flourishing.
The miserable end - when it becomes completely a matter of worldly amusement – is now in sight.

The Way of Tea - this you should know - is just to boil water, make tea and drink it.

Sen no Rikyu, teamaster, 1589

Paris | 26.10.16 from Sonomama Collective on Vimeo.

The Placeholder Series may be seen as an exploration of performance and ritual in a public space, driven by the notion of being in service, interrelatedness, and the concept of offering.

Placeholder #1
2019
Image: Delia Spatareanu
Directing, Performance & Sound: Cyril Lamar (aka)

Placeholder #1 from Cyril Lamar on Vimeo.

Placeholder #2
2019
Image: Delia Spatareanu
Directing, Performance & Sound: Cyril Lamar (aka)

Placeholder #2 from Cyril Lamar on Vimeo.

Placeholder #3
2019
Image: Delia Spatareanu
Directing, Performance & Sound: Cyril Lamar (aka)

Placeholder #4 from Cyril Lamar on Vimeo.

What Happens To A World That Kills All Its Wolves?
2019
Image: Delia Spatareanu
Directing, Performance: Cyril Lamar (aka)

What Happens To A World That Kills All Its Wolves? from Cyril Lamar on Vimeo.

Lines #1
2019

Lines #1 from Lars Schmidt on Vimeo.

Nobodies
4K, w/sound, 2016

"...it is assumed that everything that happens, ranging from earthquakes, to gossip, to murder, to joy, to love, to laughter, and all the rest, is an incredible zig-zag of what might be seem otherwise to be unclassifiable and disordered experience, but is, in fact, all framed within the Shivaite concept of The Dance." - Gregory Bateson

Nobodies from Schmidt + Brecke on Vimeo