Caprice, Voiced Performance

A caprice is a sudden emergence of uncontrolled and unstable will that cannot be explained by the circumstances and situations in which it appears. Its significance and truth evade the conventional rationalisation and show themselves outside the field of an individual’s character. Can the emergence of a caprice disclose a personal confession, while the character conceals the most intimate constant of the human nature – loneliness? On the other hand, a person’s character could also be seen as an obsession by a certain and continuous caprice.

What significance is conveyed today by a personal confession in the ocean of particularities; which truth does it tell? Can it tell, do, change something? We have become deaf and blind by all that has been said and done, by the flow of continuous changes – and despite so many changes there is no difference. And while a person is overwhelmed with the options of various fictive and virtual characters, and is able to make him- or herself anybody, the truth in these options is that the person remains a nobody… Nevertheless, it is necessary to be “somebody”. This “somebody” is perhaps just a battlefield involving different stories, voices, faces, interpretations … In order to hear him – or herself, a person must first become silent. Supposedly, the silence is a certain absence. Absence of voice, words, movement. How to touch this absence and drive it into motion, expression, existence…? Can silence have its voice and space? Are those the voice and space of another, for another? Or a new slide into the game of one’s own caprices …

Loneliness is the time when a question may be raised. Silence is the space where an answer may be heard.