Enrico Piras & Sarah Stein
‘‘‘The mistaken belief of invisibility that led to a visible transformation (under the influence of glue)’’’
Takes place in parks in Utrecht and Amsterdam
28 April 2012
"We are interested in creating a collaborative performance relating to the current political and economic climate in the Netherlands, exploring the visibility and role of the artist in this context. This project looks at humour as having a close relationship to the sublime—both cognitively disruptive experiences relying on a difference between expectation and understanding.
Enacted in the public space of Amsterdam parks, these performances use constructed costumes and camouflage to explore visibility, transformation, and transgression in the role of the artist in contemporary art, and boundaries between the artist, the work of art and documentation. These performances will play with the notion of the absurd transformed into the sublime through long exposure photographs documenting the choreography as a blurred field of colour and light. Video documentation will provide evidence of the weird movements and gestures used to create the photographs.
The constructed costumes will function as personal architectures, built to mediate between the body and the space it occupies. Exploring the idea of camouflage, from some angles these costumes will blend into the park space, while other sides will be brightly coloured and be used to create the colour field photographs when they are used in performance.”
