Hungry Man
AV Live Performance 2003
Performance of “The Hungry Man and Two Boxes of Onions”.
The entire hall is dark and the projection light casts images into the dark space, but the image is not seen until the performer enters in black Clothes, white hands, mask, and white shoes. Now his whites and movements have become the screen for the film and photos in the dark. A relationship between the movements of the performer and the projection, the performer fading into darkness and his play with whites and their angles, their distance and proximity as the source of the projection display, affect the images. Performer, Sometimes it distorts them or gives them another form or creates a gestalt by not showing them, or perhaps flagrant censorship. Like two lovers in an Iranian painting who are far from each other and each one is brought closer to the light source with a close distance in the performer’s palm to create the illusion of a momentary reunion in the mind.
Another piece of the screen is the white screens on which the painter is improvising. Each time the painter takes a white screen and draws on the images. The third performer is a pianist who improvises and shuffles the images on the white piano keys. These screens, which are constantly in motion, were an attempt to break free from the cinema frame and its limitations. The AV live performance of The Hungry Man was performed for a month, of course, without text, repetition, or rehearsal, and was improvised and different each time.