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ARTVILNIUS’18

International Contemporary Art Fair

performance ‘8 hours a day’

idea and choreography - Inga Galinyte

performers - Inga Galinyte

& Greta Bernotaite

LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2018

photo credit - Rima Juonyte, Rytis Seskaitis

Let's begin with the goal of this performance: to embody (in oneself) and install (in the space) the state of 'indifferent present'. The latter is far from appealing to apathy and rejection, on the contrary – it is itself embedded in radical involvement, but not engaged in constructing circumstances or verdicts of evaluation. This state possesses the quality of poetic language, the movement of which within the space is expressed during the performance by slow choreographic pacing, resonating with the rhythm of breathing, and the symbolical interpretation of activated objects, which, in the confrontation of its forms, raises questions: are humans capable of living in this state of 'indifferent present'? How often does the time of their being disappear in the daily routine of life, in society, in structures of evaluation and requirement? And, finally – is it possible to find a healthy relationship of balance between the creative lightness of 'indifferent present' and the destructive feeling of emptiness?

The performance itself consists of 8 hours choreographed slow dance (the interpretation of slow waltz) performed by two or more performers. 

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