Interview
Golden Bachchivan: I don't understand why we don't all live in peace and love.
Golden Bachchevani invites us to Ivan Viripayev's "Conference on Iran", a play presented by the Orchestra of Small Things directed by Christos Theodorides, in order to have a conversation on the essence of where humanity is heading. People different from each other converse, express opinions and arguments argue but most importantly search for man in the present day.
What will the audience witness at this conference?
Ten speakers talking into a microphone about what life means to them. What are those values that make each one of us endure the "scary life" we live.
And while the occasion is the Iranian issue, above all you will meet people just like you, who will talk about what is inside them and how difficult it is to live after all.
What is your role?
I'm Emma Schmidt Pulsen. Former TV personality, wife of the Danish Prime Minister, who for two years has been working on humanitarian issues and helping people in areas with difficult economic conditions. She is a woman, I think, who is struggling to find meaning in her life. She is looking to give and receive love and it is often not where you expect it to be and she probably met it where while she seemingly went to give she finally saw what happiness is all about. Finally she is a woman who while feeling alone, is not afraid to speak her truth against everyone. She seems to have it all but how wrong we judge by the titles and appearances.
What are the differences you perceive in the countries of the western world with those of the East?
I can't really talk about that. I consider us to be a "vast totality". I don't understand the us and the you. I don't understand why we don't all live in peace and love. Why the right to life is trivialized and while some of us are living let me say that all of this is not life. I believe we live in a regime of unfreedom with the haves few deciding. Of course I am speaking from the safety of my couch with a plate of food every day and a few euros in my pocket but forgive me I think we have hit rock bottom.
Do you feel that despite all the supposedly better life in Europe there is an underlying vanity?
I think I have answered that. It seems that we Europeans are doing well, we are not starving, we are not being bombed and we have some rights guaranteed but it seems to me that we have just learned to move on, to turn a deaf ear and pretend to be happy.
Is there a desperation that overcomes the performance and the speakers that is relieved by dancing?
It looks like it. I guess it's a need to say what can never come out of our mouths. Our cries, our tears, our wounds from so much we face and perhaps live through. Because to tell the truth somewhere out there some people are suffering and in the end, they are neither far away nor some others, let's face it they are people like us. So all we are left with is a dance on the wreckage of all humanity.
What is the secret of life for you?
Love. To give that light to ease the pain of our existence.