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Gallery of Contemporary Arts,
Pancevo, SCG
11 April 2003 at 8:30 p.m
Duration: 6' 45".
Curator: Svetlana Mladenov
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The performance takes place in the Gallery of Contemporary Arts in Pancevo,
during the opening of the exhibition. An official opening with speeches
and other formalities was replaced with the performance titled APPEARANCE.
MP took up position in the dark gallery connected by a rope stretched
between their necks. The performance began with the appearance of sound
and light. At the beginning MP only looked directly into each other's
eyes and then started gently pulling each other using only the power of
their bodies and necks. After a while this pulling became a frightening
dance between two connected bodies. The palms of M were symbolically painted
in red and the palms of P were in black, while their feet were painted
in gold. In the final part of the performance MP pulled each other using
the power of their painted palms in the center of the black circle on
the floor. They remained in front of each other, all the while looking
directly into their eyes. The performance ended at the moment when the
music finished and the light disappeared.
The performance symbolically presented the manner of MP approaching each
other with all the barriers that they had to overcome. They also presented
themselves publicly for the first time and appeared as a new art value
on the professional art scene.
The performance is one of three co-related parts of the MP_exper_01-04
Appearance art project; the other two are the catalogue and exhibition.
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