This
is a documentation of an experimental performance in a white room
with people in white uniforms (who suffer from schizophrenia) moving
around. The centres of attention are latex castings (of human arms
and legs). The action consists in playing with latex limbs (blowing
up and off of “latex sculptures”, setting up of latex
arms and legs). It shows a muddled, emotional inside of a man composed
of positive (i.e. requests as: comb my hair, smile, make joke) and
negative emotions (i.e. striking, kicking, pulling apart of blown
arms and legs)… The game shows that is easier to transfer one’s
own emotions on latex toys than on a person standing next to one.
It shows that the man gradually becomes an object and the real object
becomes a living being. This artificial world emphasizes, as a contrast
to the real one, that the reality bears no contradiction and takes
revenge, if subordination is missing. The more we are like the others,
the safer we feel ourselves and we hide our own sensitivity or over
sensitiveness (documentation of daily life from a therapeutic centre)
under the cover of numerous masks. The manifested privacy in the white
room with the whole burden of experience, colorful stories and personal
charm of every figure is accessible in an absolute, almost exhibitionist
way. “Closed” in this dimension, partly relieved from
the reality and exposed to the game, the figures stop protecting their
privacy, which they hide in daily life in such a painstaking way.
It is shown what everybody of us- sometimes only for oneself –
retains or even conceals: privacy – memories – dreams…
