original conception
new work (no title) Explaining the issue around the border of life and death.
And how technology is involved in to distinct this border now.
Idea came up from my experiences
in the hospital when my mother (cancer) died in August,
and my brother (traffic accident), my lover (AIDS) in the past.
How much the science can control this border.
How much our mind can control this border.
This is the border which all the humans have to confront some day.
teiji furuhashi. oct 1995
concept notes
Dumb Type's new production, in both performance and installation, is a "gray
humour" reflection on the zone(s) that between life and death.
OR - binary system.
OR - alternative A or B.
OR - 0(zero) radius - invisible circle - point / dot.
OR - operation room.
It is about the state of "white out", like in the blizzard,
where you are deprived of ability to see,
where you can't recognize anything,
where you don't know where you stand any more,
where you may not know whether you are alive OR dead.
But what distinguishes one from the other?
Where is border?
What is death?
What is it?
Images of death, looked at from various view points, be it religious, philosophical,
medical, cultural or emotional, are projected on a white, semicircle screen
surrounding an also white, open stage, flooded in a flickering light. An advanced
technique of combining electrical images, sounds, lighting and performers, Dumb
Type's specialty, aims at switching off any of such intentions of grasping this
mortal phenomenon, and bringing you into the white out.
