Rafał Betlejewski

Konferencja The Dictionary of War (Slowar Wojny) w Moskwie.

W dniach 25 do 27 sierpnia Teatrze Dramaticieskawa Iskustwa odbyła się konferencja poświęcona wojnie. Wzięło w niej udział wielu uczestników z całego świata. Polskę reprezentowali Mikołaj Grynberg ze swoim albumem z Auschwitz, Jacek Lach z komiksami z Auschwitz oraz ja z projektem Płonie stodoła.

Moje wystąpienie kończyło konferencję i odbyło się późnym wieczorem w piątek. Postanowiłem więc nie wchodzić głęboko w zawiłości polsko-żydowskich stosunków, obawiając się, że publiczność może tego nie wytrzymać i skupiłem się na przekazaniu - w najprostszy, hipnotyczny sposób - ogólnych, uniwersalistycznych treści dotyczącej ludzkiej i fizycznej kosmogonii.

Oto tekst mojego przemówienia w Moskwie:

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Close your eyes and imagine emptyness.
Emptyness charged with energy.
Energy as a wave.
This wave goes up and down. Up and down.
Just like the surface of the sea.
Waves go in all directions and some times they ad and multiply.
And sometimes they create a peak - a tsunami.
Emptyness cannot withhold this tsunami any longer.
The emptiness says to the wave: do you want to continue?
And the wave says: Yes!
The emptyness cracks, openes!
The energy is released!
The photone breaks free!
The big bang!
The light bursts out.
Within one billionth of a second the time is created.
Click clock. From now on.
Next comes the cosequence.
The laws of physics.
The molecules.
The gass.
The preasure.
The mass.
The gravity.
The space.
Expanding.
Molecule hits the molecule.
Temperature is created.
Gravity pulls the molecules together.
First clouds.
Next stars.
Movement.
Revolutiuon.
Evolution.
Galaxies.
The Universe.

Close your eyes and imagine again.
Imagine perfect emptyness.
This time it is charged with awareness.
This awareness is a wave.
These waves travel in all directions.
They ad and multiply.
And from time to time a tsunami is created.
A wave too big to be held in emptyness.
Do you want to become?
Yes I do! - says the wave.
And crack!
Emptyness breaks open.
The big band.
A single word is released.
Boom!
The name.
And the word is with God - they say.
Within one billionth of a second the consciousness is created.
Sediment.
The memory.
A thought.
A thought creates a sentence.
The idea.
The definition.
The opinion.
The label.
The icon.
Sentences are pulled together.
The grammar.
Language is created.
Temperature.
Ideology.
Dialect.
Religion.
The History.
Civilization.
The Culture.

The Wave = The Paradox
The Molecule = The Name
The Time = The Memory
The Gravity = The Ideology
The Preasure = The Ego
The Physics = The Grammar
The Visulal = The Representation
The Space = The Collective Mind
The Universe = The Culture

The Universe exists within the realm of Physics.
The Consciousness exist within the realm of Language.
They both are illusive and their nature is Paradox.

The Oscillation = The Yin and the Yang.
The Antithesis.

From zero to one from one to zero from zero to minus one and back to zero.
Oh, and by the way, the positive answer to the first question: do you want to exist? is called the Original Sin.
In July 1941 the Polish citizens of Jedwabne flocked the Jewish citizens of Jedwabne into a barn and burned them.
In July 2010 I recreated this.

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Następnie widzowie zobaczyli film/reportaż z ostatniego dnia projektu Płonie stodoła, który wkrótce będzie też dostępny na tej stronie.

Rafał Betlejewski