softer series (2022)
These series of performances sprouted from a one month residency with Lios Labs, situated in the Bledowska Desert, Poland.
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slightly softer: making of (2022)
The first performance of this series was the one of making the installation. From a fresh birch branch and a mesh fabric I found buried in the sand, I crafted a colander. For 3 days I sifted andshifted the sand through this colander, removing all the impurities and larger sand granules. What didn’t pass throughthe mesh fabric I set aside on the periphery of my working ground, forming a circle with an approximate diameter of 4 meters. In the near area I found some a termite-eaten log and a weathered cement block with rusted metal, (forest and mining leftovers from the past century) and placed them next to the circle of sifted-sand. That gesture marked the end of the first performance.
softer series (2022)
These series of performances sprouted from a one month residency with Lios Labs, situated in the Bledowska Desert, Poland.
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slightly softer: making of (2022)
slightly softer: making of (2022)
The first performance of this series was the one of making the installation. From a fresh birch branch and a mesh fabric I found buried in the sand, I crafted a colander. For 3 days I sifted andshifted the sand through this colander, removing all the impurities and larger sand granules. What didn’t pass throughthe mesh fabric I set aside on the periphery of my working ground, forming a circle with an approximate diameter of 4 meters. In the near area I found some a termite-eaten log and a weathered cement block with rusted metal, (forest and mining leftovers from the past century) and placed them next to the circle of sifted-sand. That gesture marked the end of the first performance.
found sctlpture, mining remains
Photo documentation of the Slightly Softer installation/performance leftovers
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Slightly Softer: an experience for the birds, bugs, wind and Ernest (2022)
Slightly Softer: an experience for the birds, bugs, wind and Ernest (2022)
For the second performance I invited my friend Earnest Borowski to interact and experience the feeling of the sand I had sifted and formed a sort of stage from. Ernest accepted my invitation and performed an improvised dancewith(in) the landscape, sand and found items. Image above is a still form a video documentation of his improvised dance.
Both and a small fraction of the making of the installationand screened both in an exhibition called Festival of future deserts in Magdeburg in Germany. The Videoprojections were installed in a former water-filtering cellar that was filled with dirt and sand. At the opening of theexhibition I performed the third performance amidst the videoprojections. Even Softer.
Even Softer (2022)
Performance at Festival of future Deserts, Magdeburg,Germany. For the third performance I re-enacted my movements from thedesert of sifting and filtering the sand, but this time I sifted thesand into the palms of every member of the audience. They were left with a palm full of sand and then just before the end I asked them to place the sand back in the colander, and sifted the sand once more before returning it back to the ground where it had been borrowed from.
photo documentation: Beatrice Zerbato