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‘Pere Ubu (sometimes translated as King Turd) is a gross, hubristic, infantile, self-serving and abject buffoon based on the then-15 year-old Alfred Jarry’s physics teacher, and later described as a metaphor for the modern man. When Ubu hit the stage seven years later in the play Ubu Roi, he incited a riot in the stalls. Ubu struts around in a cardboard costume riding a cardboard horse and carrying a toilet brush as his “attribute” (which seems a quintessentially modern object). In his original stage instructions Jarry specified that at intervals throughout the performance “a suitably costumed person would enter, as in puppet shows, to put up signs indicating the locations of the various scenes,” and that there should be nothing in the set design to specify the time or location of the play’s setting. This transparency of narrative production feels influential to me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I also encountered Ubu when I was 15 and thought it was really funny, but now I’m interested to read that it is considered by some to be the beginning of modernism in the 20th century. The total irreverence of the satire is perhaps possible only from a certain positionality as regards its subject, but it feels to me more politically and aesthetically influential than all the punk and counterculture I came in contact with later on. Precarious constructions, poor materials and folk wisdom exist in a dialectical relationship with engineering, architecture and science, and this is where it starts getting ‘modern’. And as a white European, I have to acknowledge that this dialectic formed my understanding of the world - which now seems like such a partial and skewed way to see things.’ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- @jessedarling

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#ArtNow artist Jesse Darling is taking over our Instagram, exploring the inspiration behind their exhibition at Tate Britain — The Ballad of Saint Jerome. Free entry. Link in bio.

Image credits:
Jesse Darling, Shamed cabinet 2018

Jesse Darling, Icarus Does the Most 2018, photographed by Tim Bowditch

Ustheater Opera and Performance of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi

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