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SLEEPLESS.. - A performance
Wed Jan 15, 7:30 PM
Parnab Mukherjee
SLEEPLESS..
....a site-specific spoken installation tribute to Albert Camus on his birth centenary with extracts from his path-breaking book on pacifism called "Neither Victims Nor Executioners"
Synopsis:
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Do we really sleep? Or do we close our eyes and run away like an escapist from the world that burns from the lessons of the past that refuses to heal.
"What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messiahnism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or in their ideas. And for all who can live only
an atmosphere of human dialogue and sociability, silence is the end of the world."
Directed and Designed by Parnab Mukherjee
Performers: Bhavana Nissima, Sandeep Raj, Nayantara Nanda Kumar
Duration: 40 minutes without any intermission
Entry - Free
....a site-specific spoken installation tribute to Albert Camus on his birth centenary with extracts from his path-breaking book on pacifism called "Neither Victims Nor Executioners"
Synopsis:
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Do we really sleep? Or do we close our eyes and run away like an escapist from the world that burns from the lessons of the past that refuses to heal.
"What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messiahnism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or in their ideas. And for all who can live only
an atmosphere of human dialogue and sociability, silence is the end of the world."
Directed and Designed by Parnab Mukherjee
Performers: Bhavana Nissima, Sandeep Raj, Nayantara Nanda Kumar
Duration: 40 minutes without any intermission
Entry - Free