Discourse frames the seventh event in this year’s Tuesday@Secession series.

Lisa Holzer, Michele Di Menna, David Jourdan

An evening around the importance of discourse, about what words can do and language does to us. How to name or perform things, how to channel uncertainties. An evening soaked in language and relational (in)dependencies. Using material we individually are occupied with at the moment: notes, texts, ideas, fragments, things we did or didn't use yet put together to create something of words, something hybrid, something new that might fall apart repeatedly. To maybe help on the real, reality, to help us. To loosen sense, to play to be more free, to delight (and disturb).

The New York Times runs a 4476 characters long article about a mix of croissants and cookies called crookies which months after their invention in Paris “took off” by going viral on TikTok, A Turbocharged Croissant Delights (and Disturbs) Paris. They look as if a croissant and a cookie had been in a serious car crash, like a croissant had vomited a cookie or more than one. Do crookies work as crutches? Do they help with reality or something real? Do we want too much?

We plan on using all available techniques. There will be dialogues or monologues disguised as dialogues, layered readings on top of one another, videos of us trying, videos of things we researched, maybe music, shame, serenity, and probably wigs.

It is the Real (a) that endlessly drives us to make sense of what has been, to anticipate what will be in light of our constantly unfolding present. Because of this uncanny temporality, there is always an element of uncertainty generating anxiety because speech – which is infused with jouissance – always eludes our conscious control and desire for mastery.
(Sharon R. Green, Hontologie. Lacan, Shame and the Advent of the Subject.)

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