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Kaxxa infernali, Layers / performance elements - Coggle Diagram
Kaxxa infernali
SOUND(s) - "What's in a bang?" / What's in the silence ?
politics of sound
Ragel kwiet
(man of few words)
reliable =
"the noises that men make" / male-gendered acoustic events
MANHOOD and masculinities
namra
(male passion)
passed on from fathers to sons (in the blood)
physical risk / danger: dangerous chemicals, "mixing colours"; readiness to "play with fire"
depression
13/1,500 licensed firework makers are women
women in the supporting roles; suffering and sorrow
aesthetics of sound
onomatopoeic
representations of different types of fireworks
"boom" "shhh" "pah"
silence
(
kwiet
)
gestures
to represent fireworks
sound and trauma
non verbal ("non-intellectual")
"soundtrack of primitiveness" ; perceived antithesis to civilisation" and to "moderate modernity" (= EU)
vs. the civilised space of the theatre (high culture) ?
Maltese grumbling...?
EXPLOSIONS = sudden demonstration of power ?
military (physical violence)
colonial history
lack of control / powerlessness
violent destruction
Fireworks
communal / cultural
artistic / artisanal
festivity (festa)
ritual (=> carneval => exceptional state => liberation ?)
"unifying communities and religious devotion"
dangerous skill ; potentially subversive
criminal (physical violence)
present politics of silencing
vs. (authorities / those with power)
EU / Western modernity
upper classes
Christian church
"Much of the passionate interest in religion displayed in Malta has therefore been escapist, and the alleged fatalism of the islanders simply a pursuit of spiritual goals rather than material - over which the Maltese individually and collectively enjoyed so little control... The central position of the church has for generations channelled political debate into essentially symbolic and unrealistic issues." -
https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/20445/1/Aspects%20of%20British%20colonial%20policies%20and%20Maltese%20patterns%20of%20behaviour.pdf
government ?
Inferiority complex (colonial mentality / "cultural cringe")
demonstration of the ability to put up a fight in the light of a past of subordination under British colonial rule
MEMORY
Jimmy's own memories in relation to fireworks
JIMMY
on stage: playing himself; theatrical narrator ?
Malta's public memory of colonial past
the memory of the land / of the sea => FILFLA
THE FISHERMAN (potential mythical figure ?)
Fishermen - firework makers: extracting explosives from the colonisers bombs
island body memory
haunted landscape
Jimmy's uncle and aunt
Anatomy of a firework (a bomb)
de-construction
of a firework
FUSE (igniter cords) / ignition
social tensions ?
sound:
https://www.pond5.com/de/sound-effects/item/91005392-fireworks-ignition-cord
preparations (for the big bang)
Maltese grumbling...?
Layers / performance elements
description of
a
haunted landscape (without naming it!);
a
battered island landscape;
a
sea bed (
voice over / text projection
?)
=> text: Joachim ?
(hi)story
of the kwiet fisherman that went dyving for explosives from the past =>
text: Joachim ?
Anatomy of the firework
performative act
of de-construction of a petard on stage
=> performance score: Jimmy (& Ira?)
gestures
to illustrate fireworks
dust
sound(s)
burning fuse
onomapoeic representations of explosions
kwiet
music (folk song, brass band, women choir...) ?
Maltese grumbling ?
trans-generational memory (conflict) of manhood & namra (
live narration
? by
Jimmy
based on interviews and personal reflection)
(post-)colonial inferiority complex
Why does Jimmy not know how to build fireworks; how to trap birds and sing like the birds? Jimmy now even lives in a place where fireworks are forbidden!
dangerous and potentially subversive skill / knowledge