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A FOX, MARIONETTES,

FOLK-TALENESS: MIKADO

The event combines various segments: painting, which is in the ought to happen … “The fairy tale emphatically opposes
“background”, sculptures, marionettes, “a fox which is a wily and everything we are used to observing in the natural world.
twisted beast”, Von Kleist’s account in his On the Marionette Theatre The world of naive im-morality (un-naturalness), the
… and pure Play. Even beforehand, Enej wrote about his presentation: “material” world which is negated, is tragic; this is not
“it is about a shift when the prey and puppet … trick the viewer” with an aesthetical judgement, but rather a categorical and
a double exclusion of the resolution. It is a non- and counter-intuitive apodyctic judgement with an emotional connotation,
solution of the painter’s riddle, the double-meaning of twistedness, for a tragicality, which is simultaneously establishing and
which is solved by (each individual) viewer … As though there exists abolishing itself.”
(some sort of) twistedness which is more correct than the very
twistedness of the viewer, who, time and again, poses himself in front When we speak of play, we must also distinguish between
of the mirror, to confirm the wily twistedness in the folk-tale quality of the play’s various “levels”: between the play of thinking as a
the dramatic play. logical and reasonable play, planetary play: play as truth of
the human (primordial) being, i.e. between anthropological
Statues and paintings are integrated, caught in the puppet show, political, ideological, socio-economical play, the play of the
they are the protagonists of the presentation, its Activity – of will to power and technological rule, therewith between the
dissolving into display exhibits. Painting = repudiation of its autonomy “ontical” and ontological play = play as truth & essence of
and the marionettes are “questionable”, as are motion and action, being.
which repeatedly distances itself from (some) imitation of human
anatomy. Individual segments of sculptures freeze in random order. The presentation therefore has no end. But we can think a
The wily fox = twistedness is at the forefront, scoffing from a distance, closure of that which has no end. The closure is a circular
as a puppet, outside (any) gravitation, in a dance that surpasses boundary within which the repetition of the difference
(every) dancer and is, in truth, analogous only to the ideal viewer. repeats undefinably, that is: it is its space of play. The
becoming and passing of the world is play. This play is
In his Morphology of the Folktale, V. J. Propp wrote the following cruelty as unity of necessity and coincidence. Thinking the
about the folk tale: “A folk tale is distinguished by a prescribed closure of (pre-set) pre-sentation therefore means: thinking
composition, structure, prescribed poetics … What’s in the foreground the cruel force of death and play.
is its aesthetical function.” In a folk tale, time and place are undefined,
characters are undefined, a folk tale adores contradictions, the *
categorical and apodyptic judgment with an emotional connotation.
It is about tragicality which is simultaneously establishing and Puppets-marionettes in the carousel of pure play, which
abolishing itself. never begins and never ends. This presentation (as in
Darstellung) is like Mikado: a bundle of sticks that scatter
A kind of miracle occurs, a kind of magic that helps abolish evil and on the floor as a selection of choice. You choose one/two
immorality in daily life. A kind of miracle and magic, like a certain in an optional sequence. The fatality of the game and
“ritual” of figures, of constant and inconstant elements: of the pre-sentation is in the coincidental nature of choice … in
functions of functioning beings and persons. Structurally Enej’s show the time and space of Enej’s arbitrary though binding
is: non-structure and dis-order in a new Order, which commands the scenography.
scene/world as the artist’s archetype. With this, we must disregard
any anthropology, psychology, and phenomenology of play. Any Andrej Medved
simplification and/or transcending of the meaning and truth. A
sequence of repetitions, undefined contrasts, follow one another.
Folk-tale beings appear, which at the same time are and aren’t
typified. The folk tale has a deep educational – ethical meaning. The
tale comprises incredibilities bordering on miracles, no concrete
historical time or space are defined. However, A. Jolles writes that
characters in fairy tales don’t create actual natural realities; they do,
however, offer satisfaction that everything therein happens as it

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