Memory Root Light critique- Rut de las Heras

After attending our studio presentation on November 25th,
Rut de las Heras Bretín  worldly wise Art historian, museologist and Art crusader– 
wrote this article expressing her sensations and emotional reactions 
viewing our performance, Memory Root Light

Full version, in Spanish, here


" … The lights go out, the notion of space is quickly lost, it is a place you have been into just a few minutes before and you have nothing under control. Required relaxation becomes difficult to achieve under such circumstances, not knowing what, when, how and where will happen whatever will happen. Your body maintains the tension, even more if possible.

Creatures fighting, transforming and fighting against what they are, against what they were. Cavern, lanterns and back to the creature, humans, beings, creatures, I cannot find their meaning, I see a structure and rapidly lose it,  the tension is held, your brain is searching, trying to understand, trying to see its figurativeness, always looking for something known, to give it a form that feels comfortable, a place like somewhere recognizable, a logical sense; a feeling of not understanding anything,  getting to perceive a shape again, a sound, making up a story that gets thwarted once more, more tension ...




You think you already have the space under control, there is a minimum barrier separating you from the action and suddenly that barrier breaks down, you lose track again, you return to insecurity, a fraying thread. What if I quit searching for a sense?  What if I relax and let the light or the lack of it, the sounds or the squealings become part of what I see, hear and feel, just like that?  "


"What if I try not to order it all in my head along a line that may not exist? 
And then it works, the dance begins, the gong, I do not need barking dogs to take refuge in something familiar, creatures do become whatever they are, just shapes, the figurativeness no longer exists and everything gets in place like a collage, and  bearing an overwhelming logic. 
Gloating on visual, auditory pleasure without thinking ... 
loosing the thread, fraying it ... that's what I needed, 
I had no maze to escape from because I was not into any. 



Finishing and being able to sense you lost track of your time, 
out of  time and out of space, as LRM Performance point out, 
"the non-place " and I add : 
"the non-time " and yet a "here and now"

The light is on once again and three-dimensional form comes back, minute hand and second hand, practicalities return, how long is time and space? All calculated to the millimeter and to seconds. How is it made?  accurate programming, perfection is not to be seen, that is perfection, and since you don't see it, it does not exist.

Being sentient is well worth it, but to be able to feel we must allow ourselves to do so. Release yourself, don't linger on what they marked you to, on what you use to. Our mind or feelings are capable of flying farther …where to ?  to a "non-place" outside of what is known.

All I have known before, all that is pre-cooked in my head, a few minutes in the oven and ready,  what if these ingredients cannot combine ?  

What if you have to grow and cook your own? 

Rut de las Heras Bretín, Dec. 26th 2013