Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Delicate Instruments Handled With Care
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The work revolves around iconic moments, images or events anchored in our collective memory that four performers evoke for the audience upon request. Visitors are invited to stroll about the theatre space and to come and go as they please. They can select from an offer of performative actions, which, among others, contains Beyonce’s “Drunk in love” music video, the dead Ceaușescu couple or Osama bin Laden’s killing report. Austrian critic Helmut Ploebst described the work in der Standard as a “real treasure” continuing: “When virtual memories and ephemeral reproductions meet, the perception starts to dance”.
The audience can come and go as they please during the two hours of the action.
by: Alexandra Pirici
with: Mădălina Dan, Farid Fairuz, Manuel Pelmuș, Alexandra Pirici
producer: brut Vienna, National Center of Dance, with the support of ERSTE Foundation
About the artists
Alexandra Pirici is an artist who works undisciplined, across different mediums, from choreography to visual arts and music (under the name Adda Kaleh). Recent works include An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale – together with Manuel Pelmuș, exhibited in the Romanian Pavilion at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale, and her works have been presented in contexts such as the Van Abbemuseum, Centre Pompidou, Manifesta10, or Hebbel am Uffer, among others. For Temps d’Images, Alexandra Pirici will present Delicate Instruments Handled with Care, an ongoing action co-produced by imagetanz/brut Vienna and the National Dance Center Bucharest.
