Salzburg from behind

We meet at Cafe Central in Dreifaltigkeitsgasse 3.

Three members of the →Bureau du Grand Mot sit at their Wednesday 3pm regular's table placing thirty fingers on the round table's surface. Slowly their fingers begin to flounder. The three friends' hands stretch hesitantly to the table's middle. They →touch in the middle and all of a sudden their arms draw back and now the knees gradually start lifting the bottoms. The movements' choreography is steered by the six eyes of the friends. They won't speak a single word for the coming 75 minutes. They speak solely through the body, eyes, shoulders, feet. Now they get up from the table and the walk starts. A group of 30 people follows the three performers into Linzer Gasse. The silent walk touches sites of →memory: the deportation and murder of Salzburg's jewish citizens, a visit to a graveyard where a silent game of hide and seek gives a glimpse of how to mourn the loss. From the graveyard we walk to a former grafitti wall that was painted white by the city. Then we enter Peter Handke's regular bar where we listen to the jukebox →playing the Beatles. We continue to the concert venue Rockhouse, the salzburg experimental academy of dance and the kleines theater and learn that it was only in 1971 that the ban on alternative cultural events during the Salzburger Festspiele was lifted. We meet Mozart who rhymes God with fraud and receive a blessing by a romanian orthodox priest in a chapel made of wood. At the end of the beautiful walk we occupy a pizzeria and since it is the end of ramadan we eat and eat and drink and drink.

Thank you Bureau du Grand Mot! For me you have solved the biggest problem of european thought: the separation of body and soul. You prooved elegantly that mind and matter are one.