DIRECTING SCENOGRAPHY ABOUT
EYE(CYCLONE)
Theatrical essay
The multi-media project EYE (CYCLONE) explores the interplay between modern science and the contingencies that accompany human progress. The different events in sequence interpret the history of art and science through time and the impact of their development on the prevailing ontologies.
Starting from a historical context - the accidental discovery of the Prussian blue pigment - the project traces the evolution of science from alchemy through classical Newtonian physics to contemporary research fields such as quantum physics, artificial intelligence and advanced biomedical simulations.
With an open notional network connecting scientists such as Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Alexander von Humboldt, John von Neumann, Nils Aall Barricelli and others, the event explores how the modern understanding of time, space and man has been shaped. The project delves into contemporary scientific ideas, where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, between matter and energy, are increasingly obscured.
The ontological explosion triggered by the awareness of the Second Body - that our actions are embedded in a complex web of relationships - raises new questions about nature and reality. In this context, the project suggests that the flow of things we perceive moves beyond our capacity to understand. Stones transpose into liquids, vacuums are no longer empty, and we have created intelligent beings that we cannot see.
The event lasts 220 minutes and has three intermissions.
The premiere of the event EYE (Cyclone) took place on 21.12.2024 in OSMO/ZA
Author of the project Dorian Šilec Petek
Lecture by Dr. Sašo Grozdanov
Concert by Andrej Kobal
Production Zavod Delak with the support of MOL
The text uses fragments and ideas from texts
Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World; Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac; W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn; W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn. Sebald, After Nature; James Bridle, Ways of Being; Otto Oerlemans, Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature; William Kentridge, Six Drawing Lessons; Alan Weisman, The World Without Us; Daisy Hildyard, The Second Body; Timothy Morton, Humankind; Riccardo Falcinelli, Chromorama; Michael Wooldridge, The Road to Conscious Machines; Eric Johnson, Anxiety and the Equation; John Berger, Portraits; Hito Steyerl, Wretched of the Screen; Peter Osborne, Crisis as Form; Nicolas Bourriaud, The Exform; Andreas Malm, The Progress of This Storm; Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams; J. G. Ballard, Hello America; Jean Baudrillard, America; Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer; T. J. Demos, Radical Futurisms; Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We would like to thank Dr. Sebastjan Cizl, Dr. Uroš Mavr, Dr. Lidija Gradišnik, Mija Špiler, Lučka Neža Peterlin, Eva Mahkovic, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Lovro Zafredo, Domen Novak, Juš Zidar, Jan Krmel, Živa Bizovičar, Karmina Šilec, Aljoša Živadinov Zupančič, Dunja Zupančič, and Dragan Živadinov for their advice and help in the realisation of the project.