WITHOUT YOU I AM NOTHING and THE AUDITION

LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2014: DOUBLE BILL #2
These two performances are on back-to-back as part of a DOUBLE BILL. Both performances are included in the ticket price. Alternatively, you can buy tickets for all three DOUBLE BILLS with the Live Collision Festival Pass for €30, if you book before 16 April – contact our box office on 01-8819613 for more information.
 
WITHOUT YOU I AM NOTHING – Martin Sharry
A multi-layered work including a film, essay and live performance
Written and Performed by Martin Sharry
i.
A film where someone is followed making a full circuit of an island off the west coast of Ireland.
One of his important texts is called Holzwege, which means a path which leads nowhere. To leave things open and radically inappropriable and then admitting that we haven’t really understood is much less satisfying, more frustrating and more necessary you know. – Avital Ronnell on Martin Heidegger
ii.
An essay in pursuit of a subject, conscious of it being a text for performance as well as a stand alone piece of writing. It’s dynamic or drama generated from an awareness of that duality. Designed to avail of the context of the situation before making any argument for its existence.
iii.
A performer trying to be present.
These three elements constitute an event that is alive to the context of the situation.
 
 THE AUDITION – Vaari Claffey
For ‘The Audition’, Thoughtless, a sculptural work by Isabel Nolan, is trying for a part in a film.
The audition takes place in a theatre space, with two actors, a man and a woman, who read sections from a variety of well-known scripts, at the centre of which is an object, prop or substance.
Thoughtless plays the part of the object in the script – could it play Kryptonite ? Zuzu’s petals ? The Maltese Falcon ?
The performance tests the specificity and replaceability of objects within scripts and tests whether an object can act, and, assuming it can, can it shake off the meanings it has gathered along the way.