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UZUN INCE BIR YOLDAYIM _ JE MARCHE SUR UNE ROUTE LONGUE ET ÉTROITE
International Performance Art Giswil festival
LAYERS OF HOME _ 21 ème edition
_ LES RITUELS DU TEMPLE _
Série de performances _ nouveaux rituels
laboratoire pour l'immortalité _
basé sur l'histoire _ la mémoire _ l'identité
Dans la ville de Giswil,
au milieu de la Suisse,
au pied d'une montagne,
il y a une cascade.
video crédits _ Iris Ganz
STORY_TELLING _ DOCUMENTATION _ ARCHIVE _ LEXIQUE
I _ L'écho [ Marcher _ Répandre ]
Premier rite _partie I
Procession vers la montagne ....
Marche avec l'artiste
Murat_Mevlana_Temel
et le public.
sur le chemin ...
Répandre le rune
Uzun ince bir yoldayım
vers le sanctuaire ...
émane un écho de femmes
depuis la cascade.
Uzun ince bir yoldayım
est une chanson turque très célèbre dont la traduction littérale est
"Je suis sur un long chemin étroit".
Âşık Veysel (1904-1973) est l'un des représentants les plus renommés de
la tradition âşık au XXe siècle en Turquie, une tradition qui remonte au XVe siècle en Anatolie.
Le âşık est un troubadour errant, chantant des poèmes de leur propre composition,
accompagné du saz, un instrument à cordes.
Les âşıks sont devenus la voix du peuple, exprimant leur relation avec leur terre, leurs amours,
leurs conflits intérieurs et leurs attentes, dépeignant généralement tous les aspects de la vie rurale.
Dans Uzun ince bir yoldayım, Veysel compare le voyage de la vie à un "han"
avec deux portes, une à chaque extrémité.
[un bâtiment long utilisant souvent de petits espaces de travail pour divers métiers et professions]
Nous entrons dans la vie par une porte, la parcourons, et en sortons par la porte opposée.
Comme dans tous les Türkü de ce type, Veysel applique la chanson à lui-même dans le dernier couplet.
Il n'est pas exagéré de dire que la plupart des Turcs peuvent la chanter par cœur,
elle a été interprétée par de nombreux musiciens et chanteurs de toutes les époques.
Def . Türkü
[Musique Folk Turque]
Il s'agit d'un type de chanson dont les paroles sont généralement sous la forme de poésie populaire, dont l'auteur et le compositeur sont inconnus.
Dans la poésie populaire, rédigée en mètre syllabique, généralement avec une conjonction, on exprime la douleur, la joie, etc.,
de l'individu ou de la société.
Il s'agit d'un type de rune qui est chanté avec une mélodie unique.
photo crédits _ Claudia Bath _ Eliane Rutishauser
II _ Du Plomb à l'Or [ Transformer _ Transmettre ]
Second rite _ part I
The ancient rite : Molybdomancy.
Melting lead
Pouring it into a water.
[ ceramic bowl by artist _Nida Şafak ]
Transforming Lead into Gold ...
Second rite _ part II
Make up routine with
family heirlooms
gold on a charcoal face.
Transmuting blue pigment on skin,
preparation for the next rituals.
From the latin Aurum, meaning Shining dawn, gold has shaped and destroyed civilisations.
Since ancient times, gold has been endowed with innate value due to qualities including its resistance to corrosion and tarnishing.
Despite the variance in culture, religion, or race, gold has always been attributed to deities
and was conferred specific deities properties as embodied by the metal themselves.
Gold has a significant role in legend, symbolism and folklore.
In mediterranean culture the myths and legends have survived, they have been adapted to the general superstitions of today.
In ancient Greece gold was the metal that was precious to the gods to the extent that they were dressed in gold.
The colour and lustre of gold continues to be associated with the Sun and the sacred masculine.
Mythological and legendary mentions of gold cover are referenced in all ancient literature.
Gold has always been associated with the eternal, the unending, incorruptible and embracing powers of the divine.
Divination by molten lead,
called molybdomancy,
is an ancient practice predating ancient Egypt,
which consisted of dropping drops in water and making predictions based on the noises, hisses and shapes that molten lead produces in cooling.
In the latin world, lead dedicated to
Cronus (Saturn) and
the infernal gods, was the
“magical metal par excellence”.
Throughout the history of mankind and according to the regions,
the lead ritual evolves in different forms and divinatory readings.
More than 5000 years later, these prophetesses, pourers of lead,
still practice these rites
shamanism in our modern society.
photo crédits _ Claudia Bath _ Eliane Rutishauser
III _ L'Olivier [ Planter ]
Third rite _ part I
Planting.
Symbolising peace and immortality,
I planted an olive tree on the dry road of
a river that connects to the waterfall.
Among rocks, in the mud,
the tree cannot grow
like an individual trans_planted far from
its natural and cultural roots,
it tries to adapt to a new environment.
Once the tree planted,
I went to get the amphora,
collected water at the waterfall
then poured it onto the olive tree.
Olea prima omnium arborum est -
The Olive tree is the first of all trees
Roman agricultural writer and theorist columella (4 - C. 70 AD)
The Olive plant is an evergreen tree,
is omnipresent in mythology and lore, particularly in the Mediterranean regions.
The cultivation of wild olive trees first occurred approximatively
6000-8000 years ago but its origins are believed to date from the Oligocene period, about 20 to 40 million years ago.
The olive oil was related to rituals and considered a sacred liquid in Antiquity.
The olive branch has been accepted as a symbol of peace for centuries
since a dove returned to Noah’s ark with an olive branch as a sign of vitality after the Great Flood.
The olive tree has been a source of many legends in history and
has taken place in inscriptions and holy books of ancient civilisations.
It grows slowly but has a very long life.
The average lifespan of an olive tree is 300-400 years but olive trees are also found at 3000 years old.
For this reason, the name of the olive tree is the “immortal tree” in mythology and botany.
It symbolises peace, purity, strength, longevity and prosperity.
photo crédits _ Claudia Bath _ Eliane Rutishauser
IV _ L'Eau [ Verser ]
The next ritual, the water.
After I watered the olive tree,
I went back to the waterfall and poured
again water into the amphora.
I then started to bathe myself head to toe
until I was soaking wet.
Moving on to the next and final ritual,
the Shroud.
Water not only gives us life, it is the origin of life.
Since, the dawn of human consciousness our relationship
with water has been profound and enriching.
Throughout history,
water has been used as a symbol of wisdom, power, grace, music
and the undifferentiated chaos that gave rise to the material world.
Many ancient cultures and religions confirm it:
in all of them, water is a symbol of life and hope,
a ground for recreation, an element of cleansing, purification,
and initiation in cultural ceremonies.
Water is a sacred being that holds life on earth,
a seed in the soil does not germinate until it receives water,
which demonstrates that it is the spirit of water that ignites the production of life.
Def . Amphora
Descending at least as early as the Neolithic period, an amphora is a two-handled jar mostly in ceramic that held oil, wine, milk or grain.
Amphoras were sometimes used as grave markers or as containers for funeral offerings or human remains.
photo crédits _ Claudia Bath _ Eliane Rutishauser
V _ Le Linceul [ Couvrir _ Protéger ]
For this final ritual,
I used the symbolic of the shroud.
As I'm coming out of the waterfall all wet,
I'm walking towards a megalith
the size of my body and
I laid there on multiple layers of fabrics,
a heritage of my grand-mother.
One by one I'm covering myself with
those layers, creating a protective shroud
where I can dry up, warm up
and finally rest in peace.
A shroud is any covering
(animal skin or fabric)
wrapped around a corpse for protection,
utility and/or spiritual reverence in preparation for burial,
mummification or cremation.
Most probably, the shroud was one of the first burial product.
Funerary shrouds were used since prehistory
to clothe and therefore protect the deceased on their afterlife journey.
