If truth to be told, I’m still nobody. And will be for a while. But in the future, I’d like to find out what it means to be a human being”.
from a documentary by K. Kieślowski “Talking Heads”
“Sonzai-Kan” means in Japanese: “to sense a presence of something or somebody”. What determines if one is alive? And quite the opposite: how does a body without life act? How does a body striving for life behave? What makes oneself a particular self? Where is the border between “me” as “me”, and representations of me, as a performer? Is there anything beyond the mirrorings of the self?
Here all of these questions appear, constantly dissolving into the state of ‘in between’: a state of being in between death and life, in between reality and illusion, in between being a star and a no-body.
