Recently I have been thinking about how I can physically show the idea of a Vicious Circle. Maybe I cannot, I could physically display the idea of a Vicious Circle as a piece of art work however, I do not feel that this is the way to go.
I have had thoughts on the idea of the puppet and the puppet master. The idea that the puppet master is ‘the Man’. The puppet his pawn. This is not the case though… I had thought that the puppet in fact is the rise against ‘the man’. the puppet is able to portray what one is not able to do legally. Punch and Judy for instance.
I did some research just to see if anyone else had a similar Idea to me and as it turned out they did. Peter Schumann speaks of this stating that:
‘people exist as citizens, and puppets are insurrectionists and therefore shunned by correct citizens – unless pretend to be something other than what they are, like: fluffy, lovely, or digestible.’
I broke this down.
- Exist – solely alive and there, to exist is nothing without a voice
- Citizen – person part of a country, belong to that country, according to Robert A. Heinlein citizenship must be earned and therefore allows for special privileges.
- Puppet – controlled non-being. usually wooden controlled by string attached to body parts.
- Insurrectionist – somebody who stands against ‘citizenship’ a rebel against the government.
- Correct Citizen – Drone.
A puppet is subversive, it rejects the ordained world and creates it’s own, it does this as it knows nothing of the everything around it. It is not obliged to orders. Yet still controlled; it is in fact controlled to portray the meaning of control. Is its meaning in life to portray what lies in front of us?
Research using John Bell, 1999. Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects. TDR Books.
