Ana Tecar
4 sept, 2020 Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca
The challenge is posed through the title “YES! I AM” and aims for a reflection on sincerity with oneself, as well as a direct stance towards external issues that generate both acceptance and conflict. The open space left by “I AM” is intended as a space for negotiating the idea of right/good as something evolving and formed in real-time. The works of artists at the Center of Interest are responses to current conditions, as the issues arise from situational complexities. The four artists live within crisis, seeking current, uncomfortable, detailed meanings, without giving in to superficial interpretations or reflexive triggers. We invite you to identify the facts that either blend into or stand apart from the circumstances, especially as we all are going through a social, identity, and cultural shock that leaves us more isolated, atomized, and fractured in our relationships with the present and our connection to our past.
Unul împreună-cu celălalt. Utilizările intimului în performance-ul one-to-one
Experimentele relaționale one to-one promit o experiență psiho-emoțională superlativă – unică, ireproductibilă.Pornind de la un dialog in corpore, acestea ar oferi o transformare a identităților performerului și participantului – bazată pe procesul (auto)dezvăluirii – într-o coabitare în temporalitatea unui ,,aici acum”. Expectanța acestor întâlniri? Un dialog bazat pe idealul etic al autenticității și al unei prezențe ''(a)live''. Luând în vedere lucrările Foot-Washing for the Sole, a lui Adrian Howells și Rope Piece, a lui Tehching Hsieh și Linda Montano, propun o discuție asupra tensiunilor relaționale care se construiesc între performer și participant. Este satisfăcută promisiunea acestor topos-uri afective de a oferi un schimb reciproc al unei emoționalități pozitive – determinate de principiile (etice, dramaturgice) ale autenticității și ale unei prezențe?
One being-with another.The usages of intimacy in one-to one performance
The relational experiments of one-to-one performance make the promise of offering a psycho-emotional in-depth encounter, understood as unique and ephemeral. Having as the starting point an embodied dialogue, they assure a transformation of the identities of the performer and the participant – based on the process of (self)disclosure and coexistence in the ''performative now''. What is the expectancy of these performances? The ethical ideal of authenticity and an ''(a)live'' presence. Starting from the practice of artists such as Adrian Howells, with his work Foot-Washing for the Sole and Tehching Hsieh-Linda Montano with their work Rope Piece, I propose a discussion on the relational tensions that emerge between the performer and the participant. Do these affective spaces accomplish their promise of a reciprocal exchange of positive emotions– determined by the ethical and dramaturgical principles of authenticity and presence?
