“On a regular basis, we are confronted with forms of low intensity violence that do not immediately cause visible damage, but are experienced as violent. Low Intensity violence resembles erosion, a process of destruction that takes place over a long period of time, without a concrete point of beginning or end. In small doses, repeatedly, and in an accumulative pattern, low intensity violence announces its presence in our life. We notice it, experience it, witness it, perpetuate it. Its shape shifting nature escapes us, making it nearly impossible to comprehend in its entirety.<\/p>\n
The Third Room<\/em> is a performance based on reflections and conversations around the notion of low intensity violence. It attempts to address violences that occur on a historical\/systemic level, a social\/interpersonal level, and on a personal level. These could be characterised by the larger \u201cwe\u201d, the communicative \u201cyou and I\u201d, and the private \u201cI\u201d forms. Beginning from our own experiences, we trace the movements of low intensity violence across these 3 registers.<\/p>\n Who is writing the book of history? Who is speaking? Who is being spoken to? This shifting of perspectives is integral to our research and work. As three white European artists, we also feel the need to address violence produced within our society, which has been shaped by the fictions of non-violence, freedom, and peaceful coexistence. But how do we do that? What position can we take? Victim? Perpetrator? Witness? All three positions are familiar to us, we each have felt it, done it, seen it.<\/p>\n In The Third Room<\/em> we speak about the multiple forms and mediums, narratives and events, memories, and instances of low intensity violence. In this multiplicity, the positions of perpetrator, victim and witness are intertwined and held in dialogue attempting to capture a fraction of the complex and subtle social patterns of violence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15728","residentie","type-residentie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/residentie"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/residentie\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}