Crystalll

CRYSTALLL problematises the ornamental function of performance. We call performance’s “ornamental function” its formal dimension, its capacity to give visual pleasure in itself, without any other discursive aim than defining aesthetics through its formal properties (ornament then appears as non-useful, freed from representative roles); the ornamental object doesn’t represent a concept other than itself but lets itself be contemplated without a link to an absent object. The “spectacular function” is its backside, the ability to bewitch, through which a performance can absorb its audience.

The spectacular ornament, without describing another idea than its own being, then implements an aesthetic experience without object. CRYSTALLL is a spectacular ornament that implements critique, not of the stage object but of its perception. We want to produce a double movement for the spectator: attraction, fascination for spectacularity auto-realisation, awareness and wonderment for this state. Both directions are implemented by the same elements, without proposing a critique of the represented object but provoking for the audience to criticize their own gaze. We’re interested in a critical relation that doesn’t moralise such representations but brings about a doubt between conceptions and experience. Rather than directing all elements in the same direction, CRYSTALLL creates a conflict that doesn’t ask for solutions. CRYSTALLL offers itself to a continuous practice of merging and distancing with/from a spectacular moment.