Laura Palmer Foundation

2006

FACES
an instalation

Katarzyna Kozyras work Faces (following on from The Rite of Spring which was shown at the CND two years ago) is another work which shows her fascination with ballet. This work is also shown in a similar manner formally - the viewer is surrounded by huge screens. Here, however, it is only faces that are to be seen, demonstrating extreme emotions: above all, intense concentration, tension, and equally intense effort. Clenched mouths, rapidly moving eyeballs, frowning foreheads with trickles of sweat. The distorted faces turn into masks. Those are the faces of dancers: classical ones, modern ones, hip-hop dancers, captured doing their showpiece performances. They are filmed in such a way that one does not see their bodies, with which they express themselves, which are their instruments. One only sees the faces, which during the performance are virtually invisible to the viewers. Just as in The Rite of Spring it is dance itself that is being deconstructed, separated into individual movements and frames in a process of tedious animation and then assembled together again, so in Faces the actor's body is deconstructed. Until now a single whole, it becomes visible only fragmentarily. Thrown into a circle of faces, the viewer can watch them, while being watched himself.

with the participation of: Carla Fracci, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Vladimir Malakhov, Nazareth Panadero, Piotr Czubowicz, Eri Nakamura, Magda Ciechowicz, Storm, Nelisiwe Xaba, Andrzej Stasiewicz, Charles Jude, Karunakaran, Richard Move

17-30 March 2006

Opening 17 March 2006

TR Warszawa

Produced by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Coproduced by Centre National de la Danse Paris, Theorem, Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin, TR Warszawa, Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Zachęta

Actions TR
visual artists in the theater / TR Warszawa, 2005/2006

Actions aimed at perceiving different fields of the human activity – contemporary art, business, advertising, sport - through the notion of performativity. Politics, school classes, ceremonies are being staged, even if theatre does not often examines everyday life, its context and cultural impact. AKCJE TR offered an insight into the performativity from the point of view of other social situations. Invited visual artists would blur the distance between art and everyday life.