Paratext #35 by Anna Dot

Paratext #35
April 17th, 2019
by Anna Dot

Bartomeu Sastre (Short stay)
Laura Arensburg (Short stay)
Martín Vitaliti (Intercanvi Casa de Velázquez – Hangar scholarship)
Lucía Egaña Rojas, Francisco Navarrete Sitja, Marion Balac & Marzia Matarese (Residència L’Asilo- Hangar)

 

Paratext n.35

We are many. No. We are many and they are many in a dark, closed space, high ceiling. Yes. we are many and the ceiling is high and dark. everything is dark except a light. A spotlight, yes. A
spotlight and a screen. We are in a dark room, a lot of people and, in front of us, there is a spotlight on a table with one, two, three, four, and five people. Four people read a script by Martin.
Altogether five people. Four read for him and us and he does it too. Martin, I mean. Yes, he also reads variations. They vary. They repeat the same thing, but with variations. The same thing but different. The different editions of a comic book. What comic book? On the screen, different layers of the I and now, oh, now you’re throwing me off for a moment. Let’s get back to it. It’s dark. We’re a big group of people and the ceiling is high and the walls are black and there’s a table with five people reading repetitions with variations. On a screen, images are projected, fragments of
vignettes of a comic book. What comic book? Different layers of color, plots, and each layer is a voice that in the next one says the same thing but with a subtle variation, or maybe not so subtle.
And I think, I, the one who writes when five people read and others listen and the images are passing and night falls, I think that everything on this planet is subjected to an adverbial condition:
it is a place in a certain moment that goes by, and transforms into another in a chain of events that affect each other. Next to me, someone says something, comes back, Anna comes back, and things and beings update and adapt, according to each adverbial situation. Either that or die. And language. What happens to language? We are people listening to repetitions with variations, language updates, variations that accumulate, adaptations to new contexts, meanings that are built, invisible castles loaded with meanings that are transformed.

Translations.

Lluís Duch,
who is no longer subjected to any adverbial condition, said these are translations, and in front of Martin and his table of reading people we can say that a translation system is a generative machine if that makes any sense? Like life, perhaps, generative like all the things of life. because it is not other than that which is dead, stopped, forgotten, or non-existent, that which does not transform itself, because it is not subjected to any adverbial condition.

Life begins then. For the young man, life begins then. The brave prince meets a wild native boy. His life of adventure begins. The brave prince meets a half-wild native boy with whom he starts his adventurous existence. The young prince has found a friend, a half-wild native boy with whom he soon sets out on a journey in search of adventure. The prince discovers a half-wild native boy and so begins a life of adventure. Language and cultural differences are forgotten, only the spirit of adventure exists. Language and cultural differences are soon forgotten, only the thirst for
adventure is present. Language and cultural differences are forgotten, only the thrill of the unknown exists. Language and cultural differences are soon forgotten, only the thrill of adventure counts. The young prince soon learns to handle the harpoon to catch the large fish in the streams.

1- The young prince learns
2- Laura and a boy learn
3- Bartomeu sings
4- Luca, Marion, Peppe, Luíca, Francisco, and Luca work together

1- The young prince has met discovers meets a wild native boy a half-wild indigenous boy a half-
wild indigenous boy a half-wild boy a half-wild young man and learns.
2- Laura and a boy have met discover they meet a Catalan lady a woman from Barcelona older but not so old a Catalan woman and they learn.
3- Bartomeu has found discovers knows a feeling of nostalgia a longing a missing a love a distance separation and sings.
4- three artists of Hangar have met discover they know the artistic residence l’Asilo (Naples)
or
three artists from l’Asilo have found discovered know the artistic residence Hangar. (Barcelona)

1- they forget, they forget, they disappear, the differences of language and cradle and birth are forgotten.
2- they do not forget, they do not forget, they do not disappear, they have not forgotten the cultural differences of language and cradle and birth and proximity and intimacy.
3- do not forget, do not forget, do not disappear, are not forgotten the differences of proximity and intimacy the distance the feeling the impassable separation.
or
it forgets it forgets, it disappears, its voice is confused the voice of Bartomeu its words like a love letter.
4- do not forget, do not forget, do not disappear, are not forgotten the cultural differences of the language of the temperament of economies of environments of structure.

1- it counts, it only counts, it only exists it is only present a journey in search of adventure life of adventure the spirit of adventure the appeal of adventure the thirst for adventure the thrill of the unknown, and the young prince learns.
2- count, just count, it only exists, there is only a trip to Barcelona present in search of a new life the spirit of the new or the old the appeal of the aesthetics of indecision the thirst to return home the thrill for the known unknown and Laura and a boy learns.
3- sing and count, just sing, just sing, just sing, there is only a memory present love in search of a known presence the spirit of someone known or attraction the desire to bridge a distance separation and Bartomeu sings.
4- it counts, it only counts, it only exists there is only present the exchange the collective a journey in search of being together with the attraction for the osmosis and the symbiosis esistere insieme per potere. potere immaginare di sostituire l’autorevolezza all’autorità.

1- the young prince learns to use the harpoon to catch the big fishes of the waterways
the thrill of the unknown
the young man
the emotion
the unknown
the big fish of the waterways
learn
2- Laura and a boy learn to speak Catalan to travel and settle in Barcelona
the thrill of the unknown known
Laura and a boy
the emotion
the aesthetics of indecision
the trip to Barcelona
they learn
3- Bartomeu sings to a presence interpellates a known and distant and present love
the emotion for the distant present
Bartomeu
the emotion
the impassable
the distant present
sings

4- Luca, Marion, Peppe, Luíca, Francisco, and Luca work together: they think together, elaborate reflections in a joint way, get into a discussion, and their position in the perspective of a collective and inclusive practical thought; the sharing
the meaning of working together
Luca, Marion, Peppe, Luíca, Francisco and Luca
collective and inclusive thinking
osmosis and symbiosis
cultural translation
pizza