That TIXƎXIT door / work in progress

TIXƎXIT DOOR – A. L. THROUGH THE PHONE SCREEN 
Kinoteatr Bluboks in cooperation with Catherine Sullivan and Audra Lee Dobiesz
(work in progress)

he opposites may appear different but at the same time they are held together in unity as, for instance, health and disease, or hot and cold. They in fact define each other. As Heraclitus put it: ‘Justice, which is a good, would be unknown were it not for injustice, which is an evil’.

The existence of the opposites depends only on the difference of the motion on ‘the way upwards’ from that on ‘the way downwards’; all things, therefore, are at once identical and not identical.

Humpty Dumpty, a true Heraclitean, asserts that there must exist an opposite to a birthday which is an un-birthday. Alice enters the world where Humpty Dumpty lives through the looking glass, and, as is common in mirror worlds, every image has its opposite. The mirror images are different, right appears as left and vice versa, but at same time they are identical, since after all they are images of the same object.
Lewis Carroll rejects Parmenides’ concept of oneness and the impossibility of movement; Equally Heraclitean he emb

Wonderland, the queens and kings were cards, while in Through the Looking Glass, they are chess pieces. In both Alice books, Carroll frames the world as a game, much as Wittgenstein argued that we participate in language games and forms of life.