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11th Biennial of Visual
Arts
The Red Warehouse,
Pancevo, SCG
10 July 2004 at 8:45 p.m
Duration: 14' 45".
Curator: Svetlana Mladenov &
Igor Antic
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The performance takes place in the Red Warehouse in Pancevo, during the
closing of the 11th Biennial of Visual Arts.
M & P took up their positions opposite each other in a dark and very
long warehouse room, illuminated by just a blue light of hand-held battery
lamps lying on the floor in the center of the room. M & P were blindfolded
with black pieces of fabric. The performance began with Bach's cello music.
M & P started to walk step by step towards each other, concentrating
deeply on keeping balance and trying to follow a straight line of invisible
light from the floor, and using outstretched arms to maintain balance.
Several times they almost lost balance and fell, and had to use their
arms and legs to help themselves. The music gradually became electronic,
produced by a musician using a live computer music program, following
all that happened in the unbalanced slow walk. M & P touched each
other with their bodies, almost in the center of the room, freed their
eyes, took the hand-held battery lamps from the floor and turned off the
light. At the very same moment, the musician turned the sound off. The
performance was finished.
The performance symbolically represented the way M & P approached
each other with all the inner barriers of a balanced walk towards each
other that they had to overcome.
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