Minutes of the Meeting

The starting point of this performance on videotape was a citation from Freud: 'The unconscious system may therefore be compared to a large ante-room, in which the various mental excitations are crowding upon one another, like individual beings. Adjoining this is a second, smaller apartment, a sort of reception room, in which consciousness resides. But on the threshold of the two, there stands a personage with the office of doorkeeper, who examines the various mental excitations, censors them and denies them admittance to the reception room when he disapproves of them… The excitation in the unconsciousness… They can only become so if they succeed in attracting the eye of consciousness.' Two different rooms in the gallery are used for the performance. In th… Read more...