ODE TO SOLITUDE

HD _7’54’’_ 2016

video by Helena Inverno

part of IGS - Institute of Global Solitude, a project by The Blitz Group Theater

directed by Aggeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis and Giogos Valais

performance and video art installation by Aggeliki Papoulia, Andresa Soares, Ângela Rocha, Cláudia Gaiolas, ChristosPassalis, Giorgios Valais, Helena Inverno, Marta Bernardes, Raimundo Cosme, Sofia Dinger and Tiago Vieira

commision Teatro Municipal Maria Matos

support Create to Connect / E.U.

premiered at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon 2016

O solitude, my sweetest choice!

Places devoted to the night,


Remote from tumult and from noise,


How ye my restless thoughts delight!


O Solitude by Henry Purcell

Sorry to interrupt, I have just received an email from Mexico’s

INSTITUTE of GLOBAL SOLITUDE

It comes after our previous projects on Space and on Knowledge.

Now, our dear colleagues are proposing an inquiry about Time.

The past is available through being stored in memory; the future through inference.

The limits that time presents form truth of our existence.

These limits may not be natural to Time at all.

If the reach of space and the range of knowledge are so vast, why do we restrict time?

après Knowledge of Time and Space by Tarthang Tulku

It was one of those lovely mornings that have never been before.

The sun was just coming up and you saw it between the eucalyptus and the pine.

It was over the waters, golden, burnished - such light that exists only between the mountains  and the sea.

It was such a clear morning, breathless, full of strange light that one sees not only with one’s eyes but with one’s heart.

And when you see it the heavens are very close to earth, and you are lost in beauty.

You know, you should never swim in public, or with another, or in a group; you should swim only in solitude, in the quiet of the night, or in the still, early morning.

When you swim in solitude, it must be in solitude.

You must be completely alone, not following a system, a method, repeating words, pursuing a thought, or shaping a thought according to your desire.

This solitude comes when the mind is freed from thought. When there are influences of desire or of the things that the mind is pursuing, either in the future or in the past, there is no solitude.

Only in the immensity of the present this aloneness comes.

And then, in quiet secrecy in which all communication has come to an end, in which there is no observer with his/her anxieties, with his/her stupid appetites and problems -

Only then, in that quiet aloneness, swimming becomes something that cannot put into words.

I don’t know if you have ever swam, if you have ever been alone, by yourself, far away from everything,  from every person, from every thought and pursuit,  if you have ever been completely alone, not isolated, not withdrawn into some fanciful dream or vision, but far away, so that in yourself there is nothing recognisable, nothing that you touch by thought or feeling, so far away that in this full solitude the very silence becomes the only flower, the only light, and the timeless quality that is not measurable by thought.

Only in such swimming love has its being.

après On Freedom, Love and Action by Jiddu Krishnamurti

SWIMMING

HD _3’53’’_ 2016

text après Jiddu Krishnamurti

video and performance by Helena Inverno

part of IGS - Institute of Global Solitude

Pas de Connaissance

Sans Transfiguration

Pas de Transfiguration

Sans Connaissance

mais tout

recommence

parmi des ombre

où les portes

s’ouvrent

à l’envers

jusqu’au nouveau déséquilibre

et encore

by Giacinto Scelsi

SUNSET

HD _8’20’’_ 2016

inspiration Suite Nº9 “Ttai” by Giacinto Scelsi

video by Helena Inverno

part of IGS - Institute of Global Solitude