Danita Pushkareva / Dmitry Shubin
HYBRID LETTER: sound performance
Russian Academy of Arts, Saint-Petersburg, 01.06 2017

Based on text by Jacques Derrida "MARGES DE LA PHILOSOPHIE"
Within the framework of Performance: New Forms of Presence International Conference

The performance "Hybrid letter" with the text of Jacques Derrida "Philosophy fields"/ Timpan" is constructed as a piece of music from 12 parts, they are played sequentially. Each part is built around a poetic-philosophical metaphor from the text of Jacques Derrida. Thus, the very text of the "Fields of Philosophy" is also examined according to the idea proposed by the philosopher, the idea of ​​the structuralist methodology of reading the text. A "membrane" from the text of Derrida turns into the main working part of the original detail of sound instrument, with which it becomes possible to read different texts.