{"id":53,"date":"2017-01-22T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinioncrown.com\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2022-12-10T18:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:29:41","slug":"oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pinioncrown.com\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"OXYMORON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OXYMORON <\/strong>(Live Performance, Short film and Photographic installation)<\/p>\n<p>Definition oxymoron: ox\u00b7y\u00b7mo\u00b7ron<br \/>\nAn oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory. Oxymorons appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.<\/p>\n<p><em>When they asked me to act naturally during rehearsals, I thought I must be clearly confused&#8230;<br \/>\nIt was only later, whilst waiting in the line to enter my favourite bar, that I realised that what I actually needed was to go out for dinner. Someone told me: &#8220;Hey! No one goes to that restaurant anymore &#8211; it&#8217;s always too crowded&#8221;<br \/>\nIn that exact moment I understood: modern dance has become old fashioned! I know it can sound pretty cruel to say ,but if feels just like trying to be an original copy of an amazing awful humanbeing.<br \/>\nI was sitting alone, together with my friend. It is an open secret that she is naturally strange with a weirdly normal face.<br \/>\nI had to make a random food order but the only choice was ordering some jumbo shrimps that were awfully delicious.<br \/>\nAt that point I asked her questions that I had already been pondering: \u201cDid you ever feel like a tiny elephant on a heavy diet? Did you ever move beautifully through pain for the sake of art? Just by repeating yourself in a random order, were you ever happily sad in a dark, light room? Did you and your great depression turn you into a passive aggressive person towards the one who was asking you to run slowly or to appear invisible on stage?<br \/>\nIt was only later, when I woke up dead, that I had the power to tell myself:<br \/>\n\u201cHey big baby, never let anyone ever make you grow smaller!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As with many other literary and rhetorical devices, oxymorons are used for a variety of purposes. Sometimes they are used to create drama for the reader or listener and sometimes they are intended to make the audience stop and think whether to laugh or to ponder.<br \/>\nDescribing a scene as \u201cpainfully beautiful&#8221; calls attention to the speaker and the object of inquiry. Such a phrase shows that an object can have two different qualities at once, making it a subject for study and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Why use phrases that do not make any logical sense?<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"820\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqV8NdJHSwM?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;theme=light\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>OXYMORON_ensemble<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Concept, choreography and performance: PINION &amp; CROWN ensemble<br \/>\nDancers: Sara Marin &amp; Griet Vanden Houden<br \/>\nFilming and editing: Arne von Nostitz-Rieneck<br \/>\nPhotography: Christa Gaigg<br \/>\nComposition, synthesizer: Lukas Rabe<br \/>\nComposition, vocals: Elsa Gr\u00e9goire<br \/>\nCurator: Jessica White<br \/>\nText revision: Hannah Timbrell<br \/>\nGraphic design: Authentic.co.at<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXYMORON (Live Performance, Short film and Photographic installation) Definition oxymoron: ox\u00b7y\u00b7mo\u00b7ron An oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory. 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