keeping the connection /// live performance


"Keeping the Connection" is an experiment in building arbitrary and intuitive connections between the members of the audience through a live performance event. Using the audience's expectation and attention as the binding force, the performer acts as a conductor, connecting seemingly random elements of time and space together. A sudden sound at the back of the room is followed by someone's cough in the front, a group of people may start smiling at the same time and affect the rest of the audience. All these moments, their relationships and cause-effect connections are meticulously detected and translated into movement by the performer, who is following intuition rather than logical reasoning. During the following Q&A session, similar principles are applied to the process of verbal interaction. The audience's questions are arbitrarily related to each other and to the performer's answers. This creates a plethora of meanings and interpretations, uniting the audience even further in their univocal sense of confusion or psychic connection − whatever one chooses to believe in.


Premiered in Berlin, January 2010
 
 
keeping the connection (excerpt)

  
 

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