MEDIATHEK

What kind of intuition provides the impulse for action and expression when we meet the other, otherness: trying to physically understand and think the other, to get to know the other body, to explore it, to enter the universe of the other body, to discover it, to allow ourselves to be absorbed by this other, to appropriate this other body, to find oneself in the other. Triggered by the physical togetherness, situations develop that no longer distinguish between one and the other, that permit the in-between to merge . This togetherness, in which we do not know the direction we are being taken in and where we are being taken to, creates a proximity without retreat and without defence. Discovery of another intimacy. Also an intimacy that is “for itself”, that doesn’t occupy anything and that isn’t occupied, that is itself. To approach the other directly from the state of being “for itself”, in an immediacy, without expectations, directly for the encounter. And to retreat just as immediately and directly again from the state of being together without interpreting the experience. The unreserved candour beyond romantic resolutions exposes the moment of encounter and lets it stand for itself. It is less a question of two people meeting each other than two bodies meeting each other. Two bodies with all their sensations, with all their crazinesses. Saskia Hölbling (Quelle: homepage) (dS)