19/11/2017
Performance by KARIM WAXTEEN & HAMKRA SULAMI
"Ecocide 1080" "Supstri Vekaniba" 18/11/2017
This 2acts-performance presented an intelligent distribution of the space and time/roles in Argh. It was first time we were joining event in this place/Kunstraum located : Argh Selchowerstr. 12, 12049 Berlin, Germany.
Here we will write about 1proposal we saw/heard.
_______Performance by KARIM WAXTEEN & HAMKRA SULAMI
"Ecocide 1080" "Supstri Vekaniba"
(you can read full program at the end of this text/in event link)
At first glance, our eyes were caught by the presence of a scary electrified/sonic chair: on a wood handmade circular structure were implemented a serie of amplificators. This way, sound was diffused in direction of the person on the chair. We will call this person/protagonist 2.
The chair stands as a point of transfert/contact between protagonist 1 and 2.
Protagonist 1 plays music and loops it, while protagonist 2 stays, immobile, under the hyperbolized influence of protagonist 1/
Action of protagonist 1 is a time of incubation of protagonist 2 s' action. The cause/consequence narrative schem produces two zones of autonomous action for each protagonist.
I was sitting on the woodfloor, near the wall, in front of protagonist 1. This point of view is also the main condition of our experience of this performance .
Protagonist 1, figure of horizontal/activity, played arpegio on a kind of small multistring instrument : after looping it, he began to read long text on a paper, a parchment affiliated formaT.
The looped arpeggio and the voice of protagonist 1 were working like a fake and real soft brainwashing ritual in the same time : protagonist 1 attitude to the people there was not played or overplayed : we could meet his eyes without feeling shy.
He was seeing us too, without ignoring eye contact weirdness in a small room, and he did not jail himself in the performance zone: this non sacral self consideration interested us.
Protagonist 2 slowly began to stand and walk on a kind of catwalk: a long wood piece, used as scene zone/space/surface. While he was walking from one side to another, he was abandoning his clothes/ a multi layers outfit, combination/accumulation of dresses/coats/covering textiles. His face was covered and his body was visible. He was moving or dancing in a nearly burlesque way on some noisy slightly distorted arabic rooted samples/music.
Public/people/audience was sometimes laughing, usual and predictible nervous reaction when someone offers his body with a non glorious approach.
We did not laugh, but felt the appeal of this art proposal.
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