Stammer - A Lecture in Theory

Mega Cities like Cairo have their very own ways to be overwhelming. Intense stimuli are demanding, mentally, emotionally and physically. Nonetheless one has to function in order to reach A from Z, to comply day-to-day affairs. Extreme polarities, extreme situations challenge the interoperability of the left and right function of the brain particularly. 

Against this background Shady El Noshokaty generalises this human phenomena in his Video-Performance Stammer – A Lecture in Theory. The drawing as physical act, seemingly balancing the right and the left, prepares the layer to depict the juxtaposition of the attempt to explain a dead donkey to his son and the most important theory in order to .... 

“ ……explore dry topics related to the mental structural systems and others that are of a sensual nature that come directly out of the private drawers of my life and dreams in a spontaneous way…..” 

This struggle reflects the connection of theory and one of personal experience and emotions shaped (artistically) into practice. The drawings work in their fantastic, but also oppressive subject matter as in «Archive of Emotions», which is comparable to a journal entry.  

They connect elements of mythological and anatomic-pathological illustrations to an unspeakable dream world. ….. With the assistance of a text book, a lecturer attempts to speak on a particular interpretation of mental and physical dualism. Repeatedly he turns around to a blackboard in order to transfer the abstract theory to an equally abstract drawing.  

The drawing seems ambidextrous with large gestures wanting to show an out-of-person and universal type of scientific construction or diagram.  

While attempting to relay this theoretical content, a constant interference of the Psyche comes to the surface and begins to take control of the physical act of drawing.  

In the end, the occupation of the form of relaying the theoretical content itself shows, right before your eyes, the exact consequences of the dualistic theory, which the text book in its objectified form cannot relay. 

videostills and quote by Shady El-Noshokaty, Cairo, Egypt 2007

text by Sandro Angelo Parrotta, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009

introduction by Rayelle Niemann, Cairo, Egypt 2010
 

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