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Composed by four parts, Stand by is a performance conceived with a time-based structure staged by six young dancers in an art gallery. Initially closed to the audience, the place hosts the performers who pretend to act as people using laptops, mobiles and tablets in daily life, but under the gaze of the public that can look through a glass vitrine. Kept outside but still present, the audience is recorded by cams to appear on the same devices, becaming subject of his same gaze.
The performance thus tends to blur and rewrite the role of the audience, and the act of reversing the point of view turn the nature of the event. A shift that finally materialize itself when the audience is allowed to enter inside the gallery, and to feel empathy with the setting of the room. Unconfortable, illuminated by the screens, deprived of furniture, the room is the visual synthetise of a feeling that is common to younger generations. Used to live in a mass society more and more built to enhance the alienation, the exploitation, the consumerism. In this frame, to share a place in a cold and dark architecture could appear a resolution, as a moment in which taking rest after having wait for long without knowing the motivation, as following an invisible fight. This state of perceived and real immobility, a real experience of a “stand by”, allow the comparaison of humankind with the tecnhological machines that we use to leave in this mode when are not more necessary to us.
Text by Alessandra Franetovich
This project is generously supported by Mondriaan Fund
The performance thus tends to blur and rewrite the role of the audience, and the act of reversing the point of view turn the nature of the event. A shift that finally materialize itself when the audience is allowed to enter inside the gallery, and to feel empathy with the setting of the room. Unconfortable, illuminated by the screens, deprived of furniture, the room is the visual synthetise of a feeling that is common to younger generations. Used to live in a mass society more and more built to enhance the alienation, the exploitation, the consumerism. In this frame, to share a place in a cold and dark architecture could appear a resolution, as a moment in which taking rest after having wait for long without knowing the motivation, as following an invisible fight. This state of perceived and real immobility, a real experience of a “stand by”, allow the comparaison of humankind with the tecnhological machines that we use to leave in this mode when are not more necessary to us.
Text by Alessandra Franetovich
This project is generously supported by Mondriaan Fund
Homesession, Barcelona (ES), Live Performance and site specific installation with mobile phones, tablets and laptops, 45 minutes






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