Like tears in rain is a philosophical performance where the audience is confronted with an absent/invisible performer.Through the usage of total darkness, loops and illusion tricks, the audience is confronted with the question:
What would be a body that had experienced all the possible experiences in the world?
A living archive of all the memories and all the possible alternative and unfollowed paths. Quoting André Lepecki during his conference at the Braake Grond:
“You shut down the lights, you are in absolute darkness and what happens is that, all of a sudden, you cannot tell exactly where the limits of your body are and also where is that the limit of the outside world might be. In the dark you fall into a kind of vertigo, in which you enter into this becoming space that only darkness can actually provide you.”
Both absence and darkness contribute significantly towards a truly engaged public.As the audience wanders in a shifting darkened place and as it wonders at the status of a (semi) absent performer, the immersion happens.
So, if the audience becomes the space and the space becomes a living memory of the shared experience, what would this do to the audience?The constant movement of and within the space infuse the audience with a permanent query about the nature of the space itself and each person’s role in inhabiting it. The space becomes a living organism. These shifts happen through set and technical devices.Distinct light and sound designs are being tried in relation to moving curtains separating the space into several rooms.The audience engages in a sensorial journey through memory as both a collective and a personal construction.