see you swoon
A collaborative theatre ensemble of international artists who graduated from Dartington College of Art in 2002; devised by the company see you swoon was performed at many student drama festivals throughout Europe to critical acclaim.
"It's the Stendhal syndrome I'm talking about (...) The swooning factor. That swooning feeling. Seems that when the writer Stendhal looked at some masterpieces, he could feel the pain depicted in certain paintings, he could hear the paintings talking, the figures in them moving around. He felt himself moving into the painting, being pulled into it. These were physical symptoms: dizziness, nausea, vertigo, even sexual arousal. Stendhal himself felt incapacitated for a day or so after seeing the masterpieces." (William Burroughs)
see you swoon follows the resonances of Burroughs' humorous description of Stendhal's capacity to be affected by painting: it experiments with the ability to affect and to be affected.