Six Saints: Søren Kierkegaard

A performance based on Kierkegaards thoughts on the importance of living forwards, but observing life in the backmirror - and of the impossible desire to find a place in rest from where to understand it all. I walked 16 minutes forwards and backwards through an old narrow passage in the central Copenhagen and simultaneously spoke a Kierkegaard text forward and backwards about the importance of walking. It was part of the site specific festival "Mellemrum", that consisted in 2 hours of walking, with stops at three performances.

"It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really understood in time simply because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting place from which to understand it—backwards." (Kierkegaard)

(Does this apply to Kierkegaards own texts as well? Should they be understood backwards? See bonusmaterial)