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A Point in Space or Time that Is or Seems infinitely Distant
5th may 2010, C-Sides, Goldsmiths, London
Performance
21 minutes duration

Description:
The artist places and displaces various objects in the room: she does random figures in the air with a frame and indicates verticality by jumping with an umbrella. she also sticks images on the wall, including a hand, with a pointing finger in an up/down direction which is eventually decided upon by the artist. Simultaneously, a flat screen plays back what is being recorded by an upside down video camera, allowing the audience to witness both the way up, and the way down, of the performance and emphasising the feeling of weight(lessness) and Gravity. While she hangs from a horizontal pole, the artist catches a leek. She also finds a book, 'The Master and Margarita', hidden behind a small secret door. Consecutively the artist asks two people in the audience to pick a quote from the book. Using the leek she then writes it in paint, upside-down on the wall, in an attempt to make it correctly appear upright in the inverted image shown on the monitor. Sometimes she is forced to walk back and contemplates the flat screen, to better realise the failure of such attempts.

Video still of the performance

 

Photography by Alicja Rogalska

 

Photography by Alicja Rogalska