Museum
performers: Andrea Adam, Mateusz GędĽba, Dominika Knapik, Łukasz Ostrowski, Magdalena Przybysz, Ewa Szubstarska, Martyna Turcza
'Museum': two months work with a group of dancers, arranging the choreographic sequence based on the behaviours of the visitors.
This performance was intentionally situated on the border of visibility. Only slight disruptions in timing, repetitions and consolidation of movements differentiated performers' behaviour from this of the usual visitors. The performance took place within the opening hours, - the aim was to impose a feeling of uncertainty and surreality of this somnolent situation.
'The video essay 'Museum', portraying audience behaviours in the presence of art, shows how the way of looking influences the body. This study of gestures resembles the 17th-century paintings that show collectors in a gallery, with their poses hiding lack of understanding or interest, so characteristic of the epoch when spontaneous reactions were not welcome. The pre-set gesture score played by a group of performers in 'Museum' proves that the reception of art is a spectacle.' (Ewa Małgorzata Tatar, catalogue 'Malarstwo - prad zmienny')
Documentation of the project was shown on the exhibition 'Models for a fictional Academy' (Budapest 2006), 'Imhibition - panel prac' (Krakow 2006),
'Malarstwo - prad zmienny' (BWA Wroclaw 2007)
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