Throughout their three year creation in translating ‘Tree of Codes’ through dance, imagery and sound, McGregor, Eliasson and Jamie xx took Safran Foer’s artwork as their inspiration. These blurred and disorientating worlds provided a powerful point of departure for our collaboration on stage – where constellations of light, shadows, bodies, objects and sound dance at the edges of darkness" - Wayne McGregor Its post apocalyptic narrative and reinvention of the process of reading itself catapults your imagination into bracing liminal states. "Safran Foer's ‘Tree of Codes’ is an immersive sculptural work that brilliantly hovers between words and spaces, surfaces and layers, pasts and futures. The work was inspired by and created in response to Jonathan Safran Foer's ‘Tree of Codes’, an artwork in the form of a book carved from Safran Foer’s favourite novel, Bruno Schulz’s ‘The Street of Crocodiles’. In 2015, Wayne McGregor collaborated with visual artist Olafur Eliasson and Mercury Prize-winning producer and composer Jamie xx to create Tree of Codes , an evening-length contemporary ballet commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. 'A TRULY COLLABORATIVE PROCESS LIES BEHIND THE EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTIC TRIUMPH OF THIS CONTEMPORARY BALLET' Foer discards Schulz Foer killed himself. Foer’s obsession with Foer is a kind of fixation although exposed. Excising co-opts ! megalomaniac mannequin, inarticulate frustrated : want want want radical ? unconnected August mop coughs depth dead Foer.
quick read insert a blank the layers absorbing. arrogant, faux-naïve ? detractors blend whimsy and hubris – 9/11. the Tree is mine in a sense, is chopped dictionary. boutique visual, die in Belgium, £ share “quality” “just beautiful” or average wad. So, fresh ? dream mutterings faithfulness bankroll ? all-time favourite Cinnamon, retitled translated. Note: This review was written by excising words from Michael Faber’s review of Tree of Codes in The Guardian.
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