E. V. Bovino (Fellow Sommerakademie 2012)
"We Must Occupy Ourselves With the Delay on the Road from Jura", Monodrama, 2012
A Monodrama of Poet’s Theater in Twenty-Two Short Scenes

Kunstraum Oktogon, August 24, 2012, 16.00h

We Must Occupy Ourselves with the Delay on the Road from Jura
After two weeks in the Jura Mountains with a federation of anarchist clockmakers, the geographer Peter Kropotkin wrote what is considered to be his first anarchist essay.  It was 1873 and the essay was titled with the question Must We Occupy Ourselves with an Examination of the Ideal of a Future System?
In 1912, a temporary union of two artists, a poet, a musician and a chauffeur returned from a trip to the Jura Mountains in an automobile.  Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gabrielle Buffet and Victor took the Road from Jura into an insurrectionary aesthetic politics of preemptive militant withdrawal.  Forty-nine years after the Jura-Paris route, Duchamp gave a talk that was titled with the question Where Do We Go From Here? He closed the talk with his own response: the artist of the near future will go underground.
The monodrama titled We Must Occupy Ourselves with the Delay on the Road from Jura proposes an affirmative answer to Kropotkin’s question with a map of the Jura-Paris route to Duchamp’s underground. In twenty-two short scenes, a series of actors play themselves : Diandra Forrest, Raymond Roussel, Diana Oughton, Sun Ra, Bernard Stiegler, Martial Bourdin, the Kanak of New Caledonia, the island of San Domingo, Bertram Gross, Louise Michel, Johann Kaspar Schmidt and Emmanuel Radnitzky, with special appearances by Fogar, a fictional character from Roussel’s Impressions of Africa.
We Must Occupy Ourselves with the Delay on the Road from Jura is a monodrama of poet’s theater. It breaks the disciplining of art and poetry, and is part of the ongoing series of suggestions, What We Should Do With Our Brain.