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ZAUM-2 in Ghent (1993)

This performance of ZAUM-2 may not have been its world premiere (it had already been presented in a concert entitled 'From Marinetti to Laskewicz' in the Ghent New Music Week of the previous academic year), although it is the first time it was performed as part of the 3 act stand-alone new music-theatre work ZAUM, directed by the composer, and performed by 5 Belgians. It uses as its source vocal material the poetry of the Russian cubo-futurist poet Alexei Kruchenykh. Kruchenykh played a particularly significant role with regard to the theory and use of zaum language. He thought that the conservative literary traditions placed serious limitations on poetic imagination, invention, verbal play and spontaneous intuition. Kruchenykh suggested that the 'emptier' the poetic imagination, the more creative and fruitful the poetic result: the penetration of the mysteries beyond the rational world. These anarchic attitudes to language form the basis for the second movement, the emphasis being on the rejection of a Western model for theatre where signification predominantly and primarily occurs through the interpretation of a word-based vocabulary (the dramatic text): in Zaum-2 traditional meanings are stripped from already existing gestural and vocal models and new and ridiculous 'meaning systems' are presented in their place. Vocal material taken from a fragmentation of one of Kruchenykh's zaum poems sets the boundaries for the language invented for the prerecorded voices and realised in movement by the five performers who shuffle, bound and hop across the podium, forming ever longer 'movement words' that defy sense but entrap the performers in a restricted Beckettian-universe of shouted syllables and absurd gestures. If the first movement explores the primordial origin of linguistic sound, the second movement concerns the abstraction and alienation of meaning from what were initially iconic meanings. It should be noted that despite being involved in this decadent production, all the actors who participated went on to lead fulfilling and complete lives.