Migratory Birds - Wandering Thoughts

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Event Migratory Birds - Wandering Thoughts
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
Umbrella Event The Politics of Exile
First Date 10 September 1989
Last Date 10 September 1989
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description "Migratory birds come and go between seasonal places of residence. But, as opposed to the people forced to emigrate, they never look back, never lose their bearing. It is not so easy for wingless beings to respond to the necessity or the chance having prompted expatriation. And since the loss of the habitual order which follows the departure is first and foremost a loss of words, it is even more difficult to account for it. In the attempt to describe an existential translation, which seldom fails to materialise in terms of eccentricity, one finds oneself caught up between incompatible sights and different senses of duration. Clinging to appearances with the kind of silence on the tip of the tongue which makes one search for more intelligible trances, one errs in the distance which separates its former estate from the present circumstances. It is such a distance which I wish to evoke in this paper: the exile of the self into a language without culture."
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Lecture
Related Events
  • Is under umbrella of The Politics of Exile , The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 7 September 1989
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Contributors
Name Function Notes
Jacques Delaruelle Speaker
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 143617