El tiempo de Dios es perfecto, in English the Timing of God is Perfect is the working tittle of my upcoming Solo performance.
This research explores the traditional figure of the restaurant´s clown in Colombia, noise music and the work with random objects.
Simultaneously, the research explores and examines the concept of supertitions from a philosophical, theological and artistic perspective, understanding it, as a beliefs or practices that link actions, objects, or events to outcomes without a rational or scientific causal connection or as a structure we create to endure uncertainty, scarcity, and the absence of meaning, and paradoxically, as a tool of political and cultural control.
The research confronts two visions: History has a direction and meaning unfold vs everything is already determined, no space for transcendence.
Supertitions: the Black cat, knocking the wood, do not walk under the ladder, always by the hand of God, the time of God is perfect, capitalism is great, chosen people, etc.
Supertitions in performing Art: Mierda, break a leg, toi toi, God blessed you, det blir hva det blir (it will be what it will be), etc.
If everything is determined… why do we need superstitions? why do we need to rehearsal, maybe it is just about contingency?
If history has meaning… why does it feel so empty or/and repetitive? why do we need to talk about dramaturgy and meanings ?
Who is God? and why this concept is so much in-fashion today in the contemporary political world?
Maybe supertitions enables orientation within a system that ultimately fail to guarantee meaning ?
“Imo hominen in natura, veluti imperium in imperio, concipere videntur”
Baruch Spinoza