DAS PROBLEM DER BEFAHRUNG DES WELTRAUMS
EMPTY-BODIED DIRECTING

by Dragan Zivadinov


It is an indisputable fact that 95 witnesses were present at the Cosmist Action of "NOORDUNG" on 20 April 1995 at 10 p.m. Eight actors and eight actresses acted out, with their skeletons, a verbal conflict construction which lasted one hour and thirty-nine minutes in an inhabited sculpture for witnesses with a direct view from above. The actors and actresses will repeat the show, for the first time, ten years hence, on 20 April 2005. If any of the actors and actresses die during this time, robotic costume-symbols will travel through their mis-en-scene. Where the dead actor pronounces words, rhythm will be inserted in the same time interval, or a melody in the case of a dead actress. The show will be repeated for the second time on 20 April 2015. The method will repeat itself. The third repetition will be in 2025. The fourth repetition will be in 2035 and the fifth, and last, will take place on 20 April 2045. By then, all the actors and actresses will be dead. Sixteen robotic costume-symbols and music will be installed in the inhabited sculpture. I, Dragan Zivadinov, together with sixteen actor substitutes will be launched in a space craft from a Russian launching site to the zero gravitation of Noordung orbit. In Noordung orbit, I will install sixteen substitutes of sixteen actors on sixteen points next to information satellites around the planet Earth. I, Dragan Zivadinov, will send my body to the DEPTH of the cosmos. I will die on 1 May 2045. I, Dragan Zivadinov, yearn to become empty-bodied in the absolute nothing with my instinctive physicality.

ABSTRACT THEATRE IN ZERO GRAVITY

20. April 1995
20. April 2005
20. April 2015
20. April 2025
20. April 2035
20. April 2045