everybody should wanna dance
Intervention is Enough Evidence. Finally.
gallery performance
Accepting the limitations of our ability to establish facts, this performance investigates the possibilities for acting on them subjectively, with intervention serving as the primary operation. The performers set about inventing strategic practices to retain or improve their uniqueness, switching between voice recordings, words, and frozen images of past actions, catering to the 'instinct for business' in an attempt to align aims with outcomes. As the performers interact, a unique temporality is created by withholding beliefs and real emotions. A maze of introspections frequently collides with a terrifying incapacity to de-intervene, de-act, or de-realize, jeopardizing the integrity of their own identities.
The dancers acquire importance through each action that impacts behavior. This results in an environment that gradually takes on the characteristics of negotiation and detachment from the constraints of time and location. Their primary objective isn't conveying something specific, just as they can't fully control the moment of their expression. Instead, the focus is on transcending their individual limitations by engaging in actions that involve change, redirection, and expansion.
They engage in envisioning solutions before realizing them, striving to align their desires and needs. The central focus is on identifying behaviors that make them feel alive, and these actions are self-generated rather than imposed from outside. Finally, it highlights the complexity of these interactions, showcasing ambivalences and tensions as essential aspects of trust and shared experiences.
In this performance I delve into the concept of intervention as a form of evidence, suggesting that understanding the experiences of others often requires interference and action. I argue that the normalization of unmet desires leads to a cycle of interventions, creating and solving problems. This performance aims to explore human desire in light of our dissatisfaction with the complexities of existence.
Performers: Lukáš Zahy, Eva Urbanová, Marta Blašková
2023 / Technology of ephemeral reciprocity / Kunsthalle Praha, Prague - in the exhibition “Lost in the Moment That Follows. The Ovidiu Șandor Collection” | curator: Tevž Logar
























