Louis Kahn

"The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn 2007"
Presented by Zuni Icosahedron
4.27-29.2007 Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium

An iconoclastic interplay of visual images, music, acting, monologue and silence to illustrate the highly lyrical, poetic and philosophical statements of the celebrated architect Louis I. Kahn.

If Kahn had ever tried to sculpt and privatize light in his architectural works, I think Mathias Woo also effectively sculpted Kahn in this highly inspiring play.

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Kahn's statements on desire, beauty, silence, light and joy:

Desire
The measure of the greatness of a place to live must come from the character of its institutions, sanctioned by their sensitivity to desire for new agreement, not by need, because need comes from what already is. Desire is the thing not made, the roots of the will to live.

Beauty
Of beauty: Not the beautiful, not the very beautiful. Just beauty.

Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Silence
Silence to Light

Light to Silence

The threshold of their crossing

is the Singularity

is Inspiration

(Where the desire to express meets the possible)

is the Sanctuary of Artis the Treasury of the Shadows

(Material casts shadows shadows belong to light)

Light
Light is really the source of all being.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and that shadow belongs to Light.

Joy
Joy is the keyword.

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進念的劇偶爾會看，因為對我來說: 他們可以是糖，也可以是苦茶。(待續)