Well Now it Looks as if You are Armed for Battle
Installation: Wood, foam, clay, sugar and others
Performance, 7-10 min
2015
"Well Now, it Looks as if You are Armed for Battle" is an installation that is activated and gradually altered by the performers in the space. Through an investigation into the power relationship between women in film and popular culture and the clichés surrounding female confrontation, a vocabulary of the "catfight" has been developed and reshaped into a choreography with a corresponding interior environment. The passive pastels reflect the simmering passive aggression within the two performer, while the architecture of the space enable and anticipates the outburst ́s of violence between them.
A vase is not standing if not to be thrown, it is purposely there to disrupt the calmness of the domestic environment, the safe unmoved society that disregards the turbulent life within ourselves. This mental equilibrium is first and foremost due to the fact that the physical objects of our daily contact change very little. The interiors - like the performers bringing them to life, are kept in a perfect structure that is only broken when the objects are brought into action. As the performers interact with the space, a tight choreography exposes itself, the objects become catalysts for the next move, and so they reveal a new structure. There is no catharsis, no release, for neither the characters or the audience, only a rigid structure moving the choreography of the fight forward. When all is over, the relieve of the ruin is replaced by the acknowledgment of a new order.
on Rietveld TV for AT5 Channel (NL)