You are the subject of my seeing

You are the Subject of my Seeing

Living in desire and lamenting in the past. Body and mind hold memory of the future. We exist in relation to events that have already happened and will eventually happen. Harboring tension by teetering on memories and anticipations, we are actually thrown into the present moment which my body and mind cannot actually comprehend. Focusing on elements such as pain, muscular endurance, speed, breath or strength, O'Connor wants to explore the simple limit of the body, the amount of space that we can occupy and the limit of space that we are put into while on stage. In his new solo, the audience witnesses a state that actually slips from our grasp as soon as we realize it.

"The body is neither object nor subject, but is situated between the two and comprises both. The body finds existence through the external world, and this world exists only in relation to him. In this case, the corporeality manifests itself by the act of touching, and the reverberation of this action by audio and visual reactions situates the body between as active and passive state. This experience introduces the participant with his own double and allows him to navigate in the space between the physical body and the phantom body"- Aylin Kalem

"With respect to the bodies of others as well as with respect to my own, I have no way of knowing the human body other than by living it, which means to assume responsibility for the drama that flows through me and to merge my identity into it."- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“THE CHOREOGRAPHER GLIDES THROUGH THE"EGO TUNNEL", AS THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER THOMAS METZINGER FROM A NEUROSCIENTIFIC

PERSPECTIVE PERCEIVES THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF AND THE INNER BODY IMAGE.

HELMUT PLOEBST/ DER STANDARD.