Especially commissioned by Le Manege - Maubeuge, dumb type's latest work-in-progress brings their unique audiovisual architectonics to an investigation of memory. Combining elements of multimedia, dance and fragmented narrative, memorandum explores the hazy dimensions of recall that ground and disquietly erode our experience minute-by-minute.

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The set is simple - almost an abstraction. A bare stage is bisected by an impenetrable but translucent wall, a screen unto which will be projected a barrage of images.

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Amidst a cascade of white noise and REM-speed visual flashes, the performers break down the motions into displaced gestures in silhouette.

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Penetrating deeper beneath the surface of moment, dancers drift in a slow sensual subconscious slidestep through the "forest of memory" haunted by voices and desires. Unnoticed by waking reason, a lone witness/observer records evidence of the scene and is repeatedly eliminated. Whereupon three figures cycle through three different accelerated subroutines of emotion, instinct and intellect, scarcely intersecting, each oblivious to the oblique "orbital" workings of the other. Until finally, the dance emerges onto a primal oceanic frieze simultaneously flooded and exhausted of meanings.

performance credit

production ;
Dumb Type

Conceptual Collaboration ;
Alfred Birnbaum

Text ( originally written for the installation "Party" ) ;
Stefaan Decostere

Voice ;
Simon Fisher Turner, Rosemary Butcher

Special thanks ;
Institut Franco-Japonais du Kansai Villa Kujoyama

coproduction ;
Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Berlin, Germany
Creteil Maison des Arts / Festival d'Automne - Paris, France
Le Manege Scene Nationale de Maubeuge- Maubeuge, France
Pilar de Yzaguirre - Ysarca Madrid, Spain
The Museum of Art - Kochi, Japan

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