PHD in Phenomenology, Expertise in Hermeneutics & Visual Communication

Adina, thank you for yesterday’s performance and for the discussion that followed. I enjoyed it.

You gave me things to think about, specifically regarding the laughter occurrence. I will expand on what I said yesterday and say: the achievement of art is manifested in the law within laughter. Meaning, human laughter expresses a truth by way of expressing something precisely. The girl’s laughter emanated from the crossed boundary between the sphere of creation and the sphere of life. It happened at the moment you covered her legs against over exposure. In a motherly and human moment you transitioned from a performative, dramatic and total state – standing on the Hebrew Encyclopedia books and roaring into the helmet – to a matter-of-fact, commonplace act, intended to respect the privacy of a guest participant in your performance.

To my understanding her laughter expresses the experience of a girl who was thrown, in a wild moment, placing her and the other participants between two truths: the totality of the artistic act on one side and the totality of existence on the other.

To my understanding, this lawless collision brought out her laughter. I see it as a Nietzschean laughter that looks at life from the point of view of a creator who allows himself to go beyond questions of good and bad.