«Prima Materia» – Nova Melancholia
In the sense of prima materia, the raw material which the Alchemists were trying to transmute into gold, Carl Jung acknowledged the Unconscious. For him, the whole alchemistic tradition was nothing more than a metaphor of every Alchemists personal process to his spiritual and philosophical transformation.
The Prima Materia performance is inspired by the alchemistic tradition and attempts to investigate the dark space of (personal) Power, looking for – again, in today’s Greece – a new way to the gold.
Having as a guide the vibrant beauty of the baroque aesthetics, we are led in a choreographed game of transformations creating a queer scenery, a place of odd creatures and an encounter with the particular primae materiae of every single spectator.
The performance was presented in a prime workshop form in June 2011 in DasArts / Master of Theatre, of the investigatory postgraduate course for performance, of the Amsterdam Fine Arts University.
