sobota, 27 kwietnia 2019

Human.Error - Soundance Festival. Berlin. 29.06.2019

graphics: Lena Czerniawska

By invitation of Jenny Haack, artictic director of Soundance Festival.

Drawing: Lena Czerniawska
Baritone Saxophone: Paulina Owczarek
Movement: Anna Bogdanowicz


Human. Error.
Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?” Friedrich Nietzche, Human all too Human
In the online poll on debate.org over the question “Are humans the greatest mistake made by nature?” 53% of respondents said ‘Yes’, 47% voted ‘No’.
Popular science media report that “‘500-Million-Year-Old 'Mistake' Led to Humans”.
In many myths of creation, trickster – an undefinable cultural figure or force - creates by mistake. “Trickster creates through destruction and succeeds through failure .“ He “dabbles in the creation of the world that will be and provides food, tools and clothing for the people that will inhabit the world”. Trickster is also a powerful transformer, but seems not to be aware of it. (Trickster: Shaman of the Liminal, Larry Ellis [in: Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 55-68)

In the moves of creating and recreating and perfecting ourselves, our bodies, and the world we are inevitably prone to lapses, unforeseeable consequences, gaps, omissions, chance moves – that might all be categorized as mistakes.
In our piece we want to ask about the nature of mistake. Can we say for certain that something is or was a mistake? Is a mistake a valid category at all if we cannot see the wider picture and the far off consequences? We want to play with the idea that if human race is a result of a tiny genetic misstep, then who or what would human be if 500 million years ago something went differently ? Would we have tails and claws? And amphibians would have their underwater cities and croak programming language?
We are conditioned to experience mistakes as something wrong, something to be ashamed of, something that we expect punishment for, yet we are utterly unable to foresee the consequences of our failures, and we forget about the fact that they are crucial for learning.
When we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up. Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked.
Mao Zedong, Speech at the Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference on Propaganda Work (March 12, 1957), in The Little Red Book, 1st pocket edition, pp. 26-27



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