Caterina Pecchioli: Social Choreography
For WhyNot, artist Caterina Pecchioli has specially adapted her work Social Choreography to the garden context of the Tolhuistuin. Social Choreography is an interactive installation with chairs, in which the audience becomes involved in an open-ended performative exchange. She invites the audience to play with simple positions in space and daily dynamics. The performance creates a space to experiment and reflect on how simple gestures can influence the emotional, social and power relations between each other.
"The viewer is asked to occupy several often diametrically opposed roles – parent, child, chairman, member of a professional group, and in the most generic sense – performer, spectator. This displaced re-enactment of habitual patterns of behaviours allows the visitor to become aware of slipping in and out of different social roles. At the same time actions like - explaining, listening, praying or waiting are deprived of their usual meaning, and can be re-enacted, objectified, experimented with." (Alena Alexandrova)
Courtesy to Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio, that produced Social Choreography.
