The The Experiment / To Peirama - Christos Xinaris

This work stubbornly resists any easy classification. It may be read as a theatrical work, as a philosophical monologue, or simply as what it originally was — the journal of a voice searching for its place in the world. From the core of these entries emerges a creature — an experimental chimera bearing a human brain within the body of an animal — which acquires consciousness and observes the world of its creators. From this starting point unfolds a path of reflection extending far beyond the protagonist’s own exis-tence. As it speaks, the creature examines with disarming clarity fundamental concepts of human existence: identity, freedom, the ethics of science, the nature of reality, and the relationship between the human being and the other living and non-living expressions of the universe. The question that runs through the work ultimately concerns not the chimera but humanity itself: what does it mean to be human, and what are the boundaries that separate us from the beings we create or use? Where does the animal give way to inert matter? And at what point does matter acquire consciousness?The voice of the BEING shifts between lucidity and poetic intensity. At times it speaks like a scientist, at others like a philosopher, and at others like a creature encountering the world for the first time with something resembling childlike innocence. In this way the journal becomes a stage, and the stage in turn becomes a space where the limits of the very notion of huma
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