Photo: Miroslav Halada 

PRAGUE, JUNE 16-26, 2011

At Piazzetta between the National Theatre and New Stage Theatre (ex-Laterna Magika) you will find a dwelling of thirty white cubes/black boxes. This architectural maze is inhabited by performative projects by scenographers, performers, choreographers, film directors, drama theatre, installation artists, fashion designers, writers, painters...

It’s a live exhibition that will talk to you only if you talk back to it. This living and breathing exhibition will tell you stories, and the more time you spend there the more it will speak to you. It will teach you to dance, and it will ask you to listen. It will require positioning and it will let you get lost. If you are afraid of intimacy – you better not enter.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Nathaniel Mellors // Ana Borralho & João Galante // Markus Schinwald // mareunrol’s // Brett Bailey /the Third World Bunfight// Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio // Hooman Sharifi / Impure Company // Ilya and Emilia Kabakov // Monika Pormale // Hans Rosenström // Anna Viebrock / Till Exit // Josef Bolf // Josef Nadj // Guerra de la Paz // Monika Pormale // Terike Haapoja // Egon Tobiáš // Elevator Repair Service // Ioana Mona Popovici / Simon Vincenzi // Ulla von Brandenburg // Caroline Evans / Hansjörg Schmidt // Bohdan Holomíček / Eva Hrubá // Abbey Theatre // Harun Farocki // Dace Džeriņa // Paul Divjak // Dejan Kaludjerović

Piazzeta of the National Theatre
Follow the program: cinema every night at 9 p.m.
Opening Hours: the exhibition: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day / the bar: from 10:00 am
Opening times treasures: from 10am to 20pm
Address: Narodni Trida 2, Praha 1
How to reach it? By public transport, take the tram 6, 9, 17, 18, or 22 to the station Narodni divadlo. The closest metro station is Narodni trida, metro B.
Access to the building is barrier-free, but not all expositions have barrier-free access.

PHOTO DOCUMENTATION PIAZZETY 

THE BOXES - MAIN IDEA

The Intersection project has an aim to explore contemporary forms of scenography by looking at scenography as a discipline between theatre and visual arts and by exploring scenography through performative spaces and environments. In contemporary art, which takes the relationship between the spectator and art piece as one of the main issues, these performative environments are crucial.

Intersection further aims to look at this relationship and the role of audience, both from the intimate (personal and psychological) and the spectacular (social, political, entertaining) point of view. Asking for instance, whether intimate relationships are possible in performance or whether the spectacular is always seductive.

The interactive installation/performance of the Intersection will also be an exercise in exhibiting performance. For the audience it will create an exhibition that can be experienced, interacted with, and touched. The scaling down of space – the boxes are 3 m x 3 m in size on average – and the ‘stretching’ of time (8 hours a day for 11 days) creates a new time/space relationship to be inhabited by the performances.

THE BOXES EXPERIENCE

The interactive installation/performance will present a labyrinth of thirty boxes filled with installations and live performances that will be open as a live exhibition over the course of eleven days.

The individual projects for the boxes were chosen in such a way to show the large span of disciplines in which performance and performativity appear as well as to show extreme an variety of themes connected to the idea of performance (war as performance, tango as performance, clothes as performance, etc.). The exhibition aims to create the opposite of a definition of what performance (and performance design) today is – and to inspire audiences to question forms of performance in today’s world.

Visiting the labyrinth will enable audiences to create their own narratives both in the connection to the individual experiences of the boxes, but also through choosing the order of visiting the boxes and creating one’s own journey. One ticket will enable visitors to come back to the exhibition at any time while it’s open, creating a possibility for audiences to become co-inhabitants. 


PQ 2011 - Oren Sagiv´s Architecture of the Intersection project

Illustration: courtesy of Studio Oren Sagiv