The Angular Horizon is part of a manifesto by Chilean poet Vincente Huidobro (1893 – 1948). According to Huidobro the poet is obliged to create something new. The poet sees the world and gives it a completely new live in his creation. He does not reproduce or pay homage to but in a manner of speaking gives birth. The poem is an independent existence within itself.
A delicate structure consisting of four pylons is the support for a metal construction. At the height of eight metres six trapezes have been attached.
Up there - in the bottomless "twilight-zone" of possible human relations - six apparently shapeless "bodies" are thrown into a "frozen" world.
Resembling puppets on a string they hang in the air - without motion.
Gently they begin to breathe. Everything up there starts to breathe - all is one and the unity moves. It is of one sound and one movement.
Individuals start to peel themselves out of this something. They begin to live.
Aware of themselves they discover their own abilities, their boundaries and conditions. They try to escape.
But escape is impossible - they depend on each other - they discover each other. Within this limited habitat they develop skills, options of playing and moving that open up their world. They use their skills for fighting and later on for playing games. Playing the games makes them lose their world. A disconnection that blossoms in the strange conditions of the "twilight-zone" and allows the creation of its very own world .
A world in its own conditions, always above the abyss and united in the smallest of space, on a tiny metal bar held by two ropes.
My intention is not to stage my own artistic visions with the help of some actors.
The concept of direction is to grasp the visible that may be shown.
This means to dis-cover, to take off one layer after the other, to push through to the essential, to the artists very own, to that non apparent but authentic something. Only under this condition a true dialogue with the audience may be allowed.
