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"Die Philosophie des Absurden"|"La filosofía del Absurdo"

Regie, Dramaturgie und Szenenbild| Dirección, dramaturgia y escenografía : Belén Montoliú. Juli|Julio 2008 Fotos©Thomas Jäger

The Philosophy of Absurdism

Artistic installation and performance

"Rising, tram, four hours in the office or factory, meal, tram, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, according to the same rhythm—this path is easily followed most of the time.
One recalls Dorothy Parker's poem "Philosophy":
“If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don’t, and what if I do?”
Parker's simple lines flick the absurd in the ear.

But one day the 'why' arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement [...] Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time, it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of awakening comes, in time, the consequence: suicide or recovery. In itself, weariness has something sickening about it. Here, I must conclude that is good. For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except through it."

Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus.

Concept, dramaturgy and design: Belén Montoliú
Performance: Carlos Chacón and Belén Montoliú

June 2008