Company B.Valiente

“JEDEN” a performance of and by Marcelino Martin Valiente

Are the presence in the life and the presence on stage one and even thing? It is the question which” Jeden" raises. The body, abandoned against the fractures and the dissonnances of the thought runs up against the problem of its representation. Because if ” Jeden” is the palpable trajectory of the thought which testifies to our existence, it does not remain about it less than the time which passes, eliminates any trace from our presence in the world.

... I think that my memories haunt me because I am simply afraid to die. I am terrorized by the idea that I will die. terrorized by the idea of ageing. I cannot support a second that I will disappear. Because I know that I will disappear for ever. My brain will die out exactly like one extinguishes a PC. I will feel even the pressure of the button in my head. and then, nothing, no signal,... I do not believe that there will be light in a tunnel which will take me and will guide me until a kind of paradise. I do not believe of anything, and especially not with a life after death. All happens now, and here, in the time which is given to me on this ground, on my work table in my brain, some chimico-electric events repeat themselfs, and from small modifications of the exterior, always come as micro stimulis which create in me the transfer of small molecules which give to me pleasure or frustration. The only thing that I believe, it is that our brain is not programmed as we believe it to make actions. The actions which we make are often mortgages of our brain on reality. There is neither verity nor justice for the neuronal activity, just a million billion connections which offer billion billion possibilities. And among this billion billion possibilities we make a choice which is transformed into action... JEDEN-EXTRACT